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Now this poem-- they're
always going to stay.

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I can't figure out whether
it's read one or two.

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OK we'll save this
for the last then.

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Let me hook this one
onto that thematic group

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I read you very loosely.

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This is a poem about
the creativity,

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really about the
creativity in the universe.

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Which somehow or other if
you're creative in any way,

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and there are thousands
of ways to be creative,

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you hit dry spells no matter
what it is, what you're doing.

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And when you're
not looking for it

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sometimes the universe
presents you with something.

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In this case a poem,
but could be anything,

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because there's just
something in it that does it.

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The only thing I should do is
identify Ted Weiss probably

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for some of you.

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He's a poet.

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Ted Weiss who was mentioned
in the poem is a poet.

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This is called "Moose in the
Morning, Northern Maine".

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"At 6:00 AM the log cabins
nose an immense cow-pie of mist

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that lies on the lake.

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19 pale goldfinches perch
side by side on the telephone

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wire that runs to
shore, and under them

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the camp cow, her bones
pointing this way and that,

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is collapsed like a
badly constructed pup

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tent in the dark weeds.

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Inside, I am building a
fire in the old woodstove

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with its rod overhead for
hunters' clothes to steam on.

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I am hunting for nothing--

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perhaps the three
cold pencils that

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lie on the table like kindling
could go in to start the logs.

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I remember Ted Weiss saying,
quote "At the exhibition

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I suddenly realized Picasso had
to remake everything he laid

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his eyes on into an art object.

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He couldn't let the world alone.

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Since then I don't
write every morning."

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End quote.

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The world is warming
and lightning and mist

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on the pond dissolves
into bundles and ribbons.

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At the end of my dock
there comes clear,

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bared by the gentle
burning, a monstrous hulk

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with thorny head,
up to his chest

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in the water, mist
writhing round him.

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Grander and grander grows
the sun until he gleams,

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his brown coat glistens, the
great rack, five feet wide,

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throw sparks of light.

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A ton of monarch, munching,
he stands spotlit.

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Then slowly, gravely,
the great neck

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lowers head and 40 pounds
of horn to sip the lake.

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The sun stains the
belittled cow's hide amber.

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She heaves her bones
and bag and her neckbell

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gongs as she gets to her feet
in yellow blooms of squaw-weed.

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On the telephone wire all
the little golden bells

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are ringing as that compulsive
old scribbler, the universe,

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jots down another day."

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