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There are wolf poems running
through all of these books

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that I'm reading from.

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And I'm not going to
start trying to explain

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why there are wolf poems there.

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For the first place,
because I don't know.

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But it would take a long
time to explain that.

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But here's-- this
is just one of them.

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And they seem to have cropped up
at particular times in my life.

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This one's called "A Hollow."

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"Here, then, is where
the wolf of summer lay,

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heard flocks of sheep running by
like rats' teeth on the paths,

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heard them in the
stubble like rain.

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Listened to them pissing
from their thin bones,

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learned one by one the
tone of each jaw grinding

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its dry stalks, knew every cough
and, by the cough, the throat.

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Here lay with the roots around
him like veins around the heart

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and was the wolf of summer.

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There were leaves that listened
to him with their whole lives

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and never felt the wind, while
he lay there like darkness

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in an ear and, hearing
notes of wells,

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knew where the moon was."

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