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This is one of those poems--

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those titles that spills right
into the body of the poem.

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It's called "A Moment Ago."

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"A moment ago, you were
following your steps

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across the driveway, head bent
in the dusk toward one worry,

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then another and
the day's last chore

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in the plastic bag in your hand.

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It wasn't a sound or
a touch, but something

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like the presence of a memory,
that made you stop and look up

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to find yourself nearly
surrounded by the dim

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outlines of eight or 10 deer.

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And here you are,
still, as if you've

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stepped through
the charcoaled air

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into a scene on a cave
wall, the thin legs,

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for someone long ago, the
lifted, expectant head

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and tense breath tried
to bring you to life."

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