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The last book was called
The Compass Flower.

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We'll start with two little
poems, which in a sense

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are like the two
faces of a diptych.

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And they're about Resurrection
and in an odd way.

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The first is called the horse.

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And I like it the poems about
that, which I didn't even think

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were about that, of course.

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Should be poems about animals.

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In a dead tree, there
is the ghost of a horse.

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No horse was ever
seen near the tree.

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But the tree was born of a mare.

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It rolled with long legs
in rustling meadows.

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It pricked its ears.

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It reared and tossed its head.

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And suddenly, stood
still beginning

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to remember as its leaves fell.

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