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"Late Spring.

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And then in mid-May,
the first morning

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of steady heat, the morning,
Leif says, when you wake up,

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put on shorts, and that's it for
the day, when you pour coffee

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and walk outside
blinking in the sun.

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Strawberries have
appeared in the markets,

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and peaches will soon.

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Squid is so cheap
in the fish stores,

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you begin to consult Japanese
and Italian cookbooks

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for the various
and ingenious ways

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of preparing ika and calamari.

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And because the light
will enlarge your days,

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your dreams at night will be as
strange as the jars of octopus

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you saw once in the fisherman's
boat under the summer moon;

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and after swimming, white wine.

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And the sharing of
stories before dinner

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is prolonged because
the relations

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of the children in
the neighborhood

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have acquired village
intensity, and the stories

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take longer telling.

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And there are the nights
when the fog rolls in

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that nobody likes.

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Hey fog, the Miwok sang,
who lived here first,

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you better go home.

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Pelican is beating your wife.

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And after dark, in
the first cool hour,

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your children sleep so
heavily in their beds,

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exhausted from play.

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It is a pleasure to watch them.

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Leif does not move a
muscle as he lies there.

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No wait, it is
Luke who lies there

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in his eight-year-old body.

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Leif is taller than you
are, and he isn't home.

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When he is, his feet will extend
past the end of the mattress,

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and Kristin is at the
corner in the dark,

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talking to neighborhood boys.

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Things change.

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There is no need for this
dream compelled narration.

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The rhythm will keep
me awake, changing."

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[APPLAUSE]

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I hired him, so it's right.

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It's-- I-- you sit
down now, please.

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You're doing great.