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All right.

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So now we're moving on.

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I promised to read this
poem when I was in the class

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today with the students.

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I'm looking for the page number.

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Just hang with me.

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So I can tell you a little
short story about this.

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It's actually very near
to poem, and it's really

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based on experience.

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And it is this incredible
moment I had with my daughter.

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We were returning from an
adventure at 2:00 AM in a canoe.

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[LAUGHS] And the
story is in the poem.

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So I hope that the rest
of it is there for you.

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Nocturne at 2:00 AM.

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Imagine our paddling
under a full star sky.

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My daughter, freshly 21.

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The Milky Way, a sky of
ancient enveloping us.

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Goblet of night
alight with silver.

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How to write swallowed, trace
our vanish into damp caress?

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Around us, water stretches
calm in a blue dark forever.

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A perhaps world,
vast dome where it

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rains stars, where they
float twinkling on all sides.

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Singing us now both
empty and full.

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You must not envy
what happens next.

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Sit close in the rhythm of a
small canoe purpled by night.

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We becoming water.

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Becoming wave.

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Spirit already sated.

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When the vowels of loon
song call open the night.

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Rise in a great hollowness,
echo in tremolo.

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There is water in the
song, a nectar, a silk.

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We put down our oars
then, holy abandonment.

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Lay back in the newness
of unwritten night.

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World brimming with
what remakes us.

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Impossibly, as the loon's song
diminishes, an answer comes.

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From across the lake, waves
of haunting music, crescendo

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and diminuendo, full
throated call and response.

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I think the stars danced then.

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I think we did.

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