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This comes from the
time that I spent--

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I think I probably traveled
50,000 miles teaching poetry

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to 50,000 people in Montana.

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I was fortunate to
be able to spend time

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in the Salish Kootenai
reservation, Blackfoot, Crow,

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Fort Peck, and this
comes from time spent--

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about 75 miles from my home--

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in the Mission Mountains,
working at a place

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called Two Eagle River School.

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"What Makes the
Grizzlies Dance."

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"June and finally snowpeas
sweeten in the Mission Valley.

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High behind numinous
meadows ladybugs swarm,

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like huge lacquered
fans from Hong Kong,

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like the serrated
skirts of blown poppies,

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whole mountains turn red.

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And in the blue
penstemon grizzly

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bears swirl as they
bat snags of color

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against their ragged mouths.

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Have you never wanted
to spin like that

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on hairy, leathered feet,
amid the swelling berries

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as you tasted a language
of early summer?

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Shaping the lazy
operatic vowels,

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cracking the hard
shelled consonants

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like ruby insects
between your teeth,

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have you never wanted to
waltz the hills like a beast?"