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Well, I want to read a
couple very recent poems

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before going on to
The Folding Cliffs.

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And these are one of them.

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One of them is
from the book that

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comes after The Folding Cliffs,
which comes out next spring,

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called The River Sound which
is a book of short poems.

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And the other one is
more recent than that.

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This one's called, this is
the one from The River Sound

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and it's called
"Waves In August."

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It's just written
about a year ago.

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There is a war in the distance
with the distance growing

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smaller.

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The field glasses lying at hand
are for keeping it far away.

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I thought I was getting better
about that returning childish

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wish to be living somewhere
else that I knew was impossible.

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And now I find myself wishing
to be here, to be alive here.

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It is impossible enough to
still be the wish of a child.

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And you sighted a boat under
the bushes beside the water,

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knowing I would want
it later and come back

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and would find it there.

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Someone else took it
and left me, instead,

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the sound of the water with
its whisper of vertigo, terror,

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reassurance, and
old, old sadness.

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It would seem we knew enough,
always, about parting.

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But we have to go on learning
as long as there is anything.