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I live now by moving water,
on the banks of the Chena

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river in Fairbanks, Alaska.

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You can't tell that it's
moving, right now, because it's

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iced over.

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It's a highway for snow
machines, and skiers,

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and skijors.

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But all summer, when
there is no dark,

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it's a highway for
boats, of course.

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This one's called "July
Twilight on the Chena."

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And it-- twilight's usually
between about midnight and 1:00

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o'clock.

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"Red fox on the riverbank
leaps downed birch--

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two, three-- what
he's after scrambling,

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invisible from our riverboat.

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Red fox, skinny shins
flailing, dives out of sight.

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Moist dirt shelters him,
absorbs the inked tip

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of his lavish tail.

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His secrets are his.

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Bright salmon-- breaching--
keep secrets too.

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Beavers chew vein-rich
silver alder,

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every mouthful a
word, a world untold."

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