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This is a poem for my mother
and my sister who are here.

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First Snow.

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We'll let TPD do what TPD does,
which is not prevent crime.

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First Snow.

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November's commotion settles on
my shoulders like good fortune.

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I'm still delighted
by the white idea

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that's begun to fill the city.

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Accumulation and decree
specific under my boot.

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Remember us mother.

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You post-partum sister
asleep in another room

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I had you to myself
again, we stood

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against the cold and foreign
light of the Utah winter

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window.

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The snow falling hours on
end, and my childhood delight

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with a constant flurry.

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Our faces reflected in
spite of frosted panes

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and I could see you
fill with sorrow

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as each astonishing flake
tilted through our view.

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I know now as the
city forgets itself

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in the chaos and
grace of ice how you

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yearn south missing the desert.

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The way I watch out
this window missing you

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with each gathering star.

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