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--all this grief in Ireland.

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This is set at the
beginning of a new year.

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Yeah, and it's a heavy snowfall.

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I don't know if you ever--

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do you know what snow is?

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[LAUGHTER]

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This is called "The Park Drunk".

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He opens his eyes to a
hard frost, the morning's

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soft amnesia of snow.

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The thorned stems of
gorse are starred crystal,

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each bud like a
candied fruit, it's

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yellow picked out and lit by
the low pulse of blood orange

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riding in the eastern trees.

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But the snow has furred
to silence, uniformity.

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Frost amplifies, makes singular,
giving every form a sound,

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an edge, as if frost wants to
know what snow tries to forget.

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And so he drinks for
winter, for the coming year,

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to open all the beautiful tiny
doors in their crackled layer

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of frost.

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And he drinks like
the snow falling,

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trying to close the
biggest door of all.

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