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This poem is called--

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I don't say much between
poems because I'm afraid.

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This poem is called "Wake Up."

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"The road down from
everything even

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you had hardly dared to hope for
has its lonely stretches, yes.

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But it's hard to
feel alone entirely.

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There's a river that runs
beside it the whole way down,

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and there's an over-song
that keeps the river company.

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I'm leaves, you're the wind.

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I used to think the song had to
do with the leaves' confusion.

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The wind letting up.

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They're mistaking
this for something

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like courtesy on the wind's
part, or even forgiveness.

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But leaves don't get confused.

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Silly to think it.

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And what can leaves know
of courtesy, let alone

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forgiveness?

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What's forgiveness?

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Wake up, for the falconer
has lost his falcon.

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He has heard that falcons are
like memory, they come back.

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But not all memories do.

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Not all memories should.

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If anyone knows this,
it's the falconer.

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How long ago that was.

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Yet, all the varieties
of good fortune

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he's come upon, as
a hand comes idly

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upon an orchard's windfalls.

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How different he's become since.

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None of it matters when the
falconer steps back into memory

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as into a vast cathedral, which
is to say, when he remembers.

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How cool it is
inside the cathedral.

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And, at first, how dark.

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Soon though, he can see a
chapel set aside for prayers

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specifically to the Virgin,
whose story he's always

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resisted.

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He sees a corner where people
have lit candles, sometimes

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for another's suffering,
sometimes for their own.

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He sees the altar with the
falcon sitting on top of it.

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The weight of grief
over what's lost,

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versus the shadow
of what's lost,

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forever struggling to
return and failing.

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Who can say which is better?

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The falconer's eye
meets the falcon's eye.

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'I have a story,'
the falcon says.

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Seems to.

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The wings lifting,
the feathers rippling

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with the story's parts.

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'I have a story.

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I can't wait to tell you.'"

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Falcons, cathedrals.

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It's what comes from living
next door to a cathedral.

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And falcons landing
in your yard.

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Often.

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