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I thought I'd start with
that little travel poem

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since I've been traveling
a very long way down here

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from Vermont, came yesterday.

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This poem is set
in New Hampshire

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and the mode of travel is
a car rather than a plane.

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And the poem is
called "Stone Pond."

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And it's essentially one
extremely long sentence,

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and then two quite short
sentences at the end.

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I feel like I
should do something

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that has to do with
syntax, and so we're

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talking about syntax poem.

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"Stone Pond."

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"Driving over the limit
on a mountain road,

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the mist rising stone pond,
white with ice and white mist

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inside its circle of
birch and black fur,

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driving home after
seeing friends,

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the radio complicitus
and loud, Beethoven's

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braided musical line, a
Sonata I recall playing well.

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Passing the tiny
houses on the Hillside,

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wood smoke rising among the
budded trees then passing

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within inches of someone's
yard, a circle stone pond.

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And despair seems like
something I can set aside.

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The road bends again, the
morning burns through the mist.

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Sufficient joy, what should
I have done to make it last?"

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