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I don't think of this
poem as a dream poem

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but I guess it sort of is.

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It's a wish poem, which
is kind of the same thing.

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Begins with the
cliche, which also kick

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starts the first
line of the poem.

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"If wishes were horses
there would be a ranch

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called Night Sky or Sleepy Head.

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And a bay with a white
blaze called Sloop.

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And another, a roan 17 hands
high called Bottom Dollar.

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And wouldn't they fly like
flame licks before first light

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when the wind kicks up
and clouds are kites

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cut loose in the dark.

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There would be a
river, some cool water

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like a vein of silver
dimpled with trout,

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shivering beneath stars
innumerable and faint

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as faces forgotten by children
drifting into a dreaming,

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deep as a heart.

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The river would be
called Heart and there

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would be a prairie called
Endless, Shaking out

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its rope of dusty miles
burled with shadows, bunch

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grass, sagebrush, and a shape
in the distance like smoke

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or something lost.

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The shape would be Nameless
and the horses, the roan

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and the bay, with their lips
stripped away from their teeth

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like death masks
and ears ironed flat

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would stop, and nose the
wind, and nicker their withers

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trembling like spider lace, and
the shape would nicker back."

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