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Strawberries.

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Well, you spend all your
life leaving your family,

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you know, and do it at
intervals like every day.

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And this is one
of the intervals.

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There are quite
a number of poems

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at the beginning
of this book that

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had to do with leaving
members of my family.

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That was obviously burning.

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Strawberries.

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When my father died,
I saw a narrow valley.

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It looked as though it
began across the river

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from the landing where he was
born, but there was no river.

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I was hoeing the sand of a small
vegetable plot for my mother

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in deepening twilight,
and looked up in time

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to see a farm wagon dry and
gray, horse already hidden

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and no driver going into the
valley carrying a casket.

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And another wagon
coming out of the valley

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behind the gray horse
with a boy driving

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at a high load of two kinds
of berries, one of them

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strawberry.

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That night when I
slept, I dreamed

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of things wrong in the
house, all of them signs.

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The water of the shower
running brackish and an insect

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of a kind I had seen
him kill climbing around

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the walls of this bathroom.

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Up in the morning, I
stopped on the stairs.

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My mother was awake
already and asked me

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if I wanted a shower
before breakfast.

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And for breakfast, she
said, we have strawberries.

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