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So, I'm going to read a last
poem in this book, and then

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two others.

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This is to my husband
Bob Hass, if you

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have to spend three years
in a pandemic with anyone,

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can't recommend Bob
Hass highly enough.

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Really, really interesting.

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Everything that comes out
of his mouth, everything.

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So do come Saturday and
hear him talk about Miłosz,

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because he's a brilliant gift.

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"On Hearing the
Golden-Crowned Sparrow"

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Half-sweet squeal.

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And oh, I wanted
to say a shout-out

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to Ken Lamberton, who's here.

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Who's an amazing writer and
he's the bird expert of Arizona.

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So this golden crowned
sparrow is also for Ken.

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"On Hearing the
Golden-crowned Sparrow"

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Half sweet squeal.

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Sounds like one hearing
aid placed on the table.

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A song knows

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more than one way.

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When hills catch fire,

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this sparrow stays

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or returns to the
same bush each year

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We loved each other

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when we couldn't love ourselves,

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our life a time-shaped miracle.

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A new ash is
covering the plants,

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planet, plans,

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the song's enchantment
has a grainy hunger,

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finishingly, seep-seep, nightly

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finishing unearthbound,
like a Saturday.

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Its broad eyebrows
crowd its crown.

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When we are sad about poetry,

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when the immortals can't

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be heard because of fire,

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this staggered sound.

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Split

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splendor

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about our height,
from the ground.

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So that's how that book ends.