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This book was written
during the war.

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And a lot of during
the Vietnam War.

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And a lot of the poems are
deliberately two-edged.

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And they were all taken
one way, of course.

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I want to read one more of them.

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This one's called Avoiding
News by The River.

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As the stars hide in the
light before daybreak,

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reid warblers hunt along
the narrow stream trunk

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rise to their shadows.

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Milky light flows through the
branches fills with blood.

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Men will be waking.

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In an hour, it will be summer.

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I dreamed that the heavens
were eating the Earth,

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waking it is not
so, not the heavens.

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I am not ashamed of
the wrens murders

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of the badgers dinners on
which all worldly good depends.

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If I were not human, I would
not be ashamed of anything.

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