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Winter came as it does in this valley	A
After eight dry months rain fell	B
And the mountains straw colored turned green for a while	C
In the canyons where gray laurels	D
Graft their stony roots to granite	E
Streams must have filled the dried up creek beds	F
Ocean winds churned the eucalyptus trees	G
And under clouds torn by a crystal of towers	H
Prickly lights were glowing on the docks	I
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This is not a place where you sit under a caf awning	J
On a marble piazza watching the crowd	K
Or play the flute at a window over a narrow street	L
While children s sandals clatter in the vaulted entryway	M
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They heard of a land empty and vast	N
Bordered by mountains So they went leaving behind crosses	O
Of thorny wood and traces of campfires	H
As it happened they spent winter in the snow of a mountain pass	P
And drew lots and boiled the bones of their companions	Q
And so afterward a hot valley where indigo could be grown	R
Seemed beautiful to them And beyond where fog	S
Heaved into shoreline coves the ocean labored	T
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Sleep rocks and capes will lie down inside you	U
War councils of motionless animals in a barren place	V
Basilicas of reptiles a frothy whiteness	W
Sleep on your coat while your horse nibbles grass	P
And an eagle gauges a precipice	W
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When you wake up you will have the parts of the world	X
West an empty conch of water and air	Y
East always behind you the voided memory of snow covered fir	Z
And extending from your outspread arms	A2
Nothing but bronze grasses north and south	B2
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We are poor people much afflicted	C2
We camped under various stars	D2
Where you dip water with a cup from a muddy river	Z
And slice your bread with a pocketknife	E2
This is the place accepted not chosen	F2
We remembered that there were streets and houses where we came	G2
from	H2
So there had to be houses here a saddler s signboard	C2
A small veranda with a chair But empty a country where	Y
The thunder beneath the rippled skin of the earth	I2
The breaking waves a patrol of pelicans nullified us	W
As if our vases brought here from another shore	J2
Were the dug up spearheads of some lost tribe	K2
Who fed on lizards and acorn flour	Z
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And here I am walking the eternal earth	I2
Tiny leaning on a stick	L2
I pass a volcanic park lie down at a spring	J
Not knowing how to express what is always and everywhere	Y
The earth I cling to is so solid	C2
Under my breast and belly that I feel grateful	M2
For every pebble and I don t know whether	Z
It is my pulse or the earth s that I hear	N2
When the hems of invisible silk vestments pass over me	A
Hands wherever they have been touch my arm	O2
Or small laughter once long ago over wine	P2
With lanterns in the magnolias for my house is huge	Q2

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