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Now to finish, two poem
which are completely

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of another order.

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The first I haven't
really finished yet,

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but I'd like to read it.

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I worked this out
as finished as it

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is a couple of weeks ago in
Baja, California at Conception

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Bay.

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It's called "The
Hudsonian Curlew."

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This is a several poems,
five or six short pieces

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in different styles.

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The desert track turn
around parked to the truck

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and walk over dunes
a pebbly point

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hooks out to the shallow bay.

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A mandala of birds.

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Pelican, seagulls, and terns,
one curlew far at the end.

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They fly up as they see
us stand settle back down.

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Terns keep coming out of empty
skies from over the oceans.

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Frigate birds sail without
stopping or greeting.

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Pelicans sit nearest to the sea.

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Tern are bathing and fluttering
in the frothy wave lapping

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between the small rocks.

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We gather driftwood for
firewood for camping,

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get four shells to serve up
a pail of steamed snails.

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In the top of the cardon
cactus at the edge of the camp

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two vultures look, and
yawn, and hunch, and preen.

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Out on the point the sea
birds flutter and settle,

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come and leave, speak--

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two sides of the border.

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The margins, tidewater, zones.

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Two worlds don't meet.

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Three shot gun shots as it's
getting dark, two birds.

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How come three shots?

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One went down on the
water and started to swim.

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I didn't want another
thing like that duck.

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The bill curved down
and the long neck limp.

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A grandmother
plumage of cinnamon

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and brown, the beak not
so long bars on the head

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and by the eye.

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A Hudsonian curlew and the
tern, most likely royal tern,

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with forked tail and
heavy orange beak

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