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Well, these two poems
really belong together.

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So I read both of them.

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One is very short.

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First is called high water.

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The river is rising with the
breathless sound of a fever.

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The wake along each shore
trembles and is torn away.

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A few steps up in the
rain, rows of white faces

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watch from the banks,
backs to the cellar door.

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Behind the blue eyes
are the cellars contents

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silent in bottles
each with its date

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on shelves waiting
under the dripping hats.

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When the faces draw closer
to each other in the rain

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they talk like members of one
family telling what could be

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moved if they have to move it.

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Saying where would be safe.

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Talking of the
gardens on the hills.

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The rains other years.

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What most needs repair.

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What the spring
means to the summer.

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Even of the lake
in the mountains,

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which they owned together and
agree once again never to sell.

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