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Three years ago, I moved from
the Boston area to Seattle.

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And I live near Lake
Washington, and from one

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of my upstairs windows, I can
see a bit of Mount Rainier.

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From just up the street,
when the mountain is out,

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I get a wonderful view of it.

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And from the park at the
bottom of the street,

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I get wonderful views
of Mount Rainier also.

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And so I've written a lot
of poems about the place

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where I now live, and I'm
going to read a couple of them,

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a few of them.

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This one is called "Settling,"
and is actually, probably,

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the first poem that I
wrote in Seattle, about--

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I don't know if the first
poem I wrote in Seattle,

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but it was the first poem
I wrote as a direct result

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of having moved there.

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"I was welcomed here,
clear gold of late summer,

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of opening autumn, the
dawn eagle sunning himself

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on the highest tree.

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The mountain revealing
herself unclouded,

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her snow tinted apricot
as she looked west,

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tolerant in her steadfastness
of the restless sun,

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forever rising and setting.

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Now I am given a taste of
the gray foretold by all

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and sundry, a gray
both heavy and chill.

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I boasted I would not care,
I'm London-born, and I won't.

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I'll dig in, into my days,
having come here to live,

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not to visit.

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Gray is the price
of neighbouring

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with eagles, of knowing a
mountain's vast presence, seen

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or unseen."

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