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And then one more poem from
this book, again about--

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as I said-- about that place
called Blackwater Mountain.

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And I think there is
Blackwater Mountain.

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It's all the same place.

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Well, this is about
the son whom I finally

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forgive [LAUGHS] for sending
me into that damn lake

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to go after that duck
that he shot on the water,

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and letting me stay in
there for five hours

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or however long it was
while he sat up by the fire.

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How can you shoot
a duck on the water

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when you're a vicar of Christ?

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Anyhow.

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"Blackwater Mountain."

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In this poem I
didn't forgive him.

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I do now.

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I'm older and less wise.

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"That time of evening,
weightless and desperate.

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When the loon cries, when
the small bats jostle

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the lake's reflections.

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When the green of the oak
begins to open its robes

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to the dark, the green of water
to offer itself to the flames.

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When lily and lily pad
husband the last light

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which flares like a white
disease, then disappears.

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This is what I remember.

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And this, the slap of the jack
light on the cove, the freeze

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frame of ducks below us.

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Your shots, the
wounded flop and skid

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of one bird to the thick brush.

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The moon of your face
in the fire's glow.

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The cold, the darkness.

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Young, wanting approval.

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What else could I do?

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And did for two hours,
waist deep in the lake.

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The thicket as black as death.

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Without success
or reprieve, try.

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The stars over
Blackwater Mountain

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still dangle and flash
like hooks and ducks coast

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on evening water.

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The foliage is like applause.

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I stand where we stood
before me, my flashlight

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down to the lake.

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A black deck explodes to my
right, hangs and is gone.

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He shows me the way to you.

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He shows me the way
to a different fire

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where you, black moon,
warm your hands."

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