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read and tea	A
home of the long tides	B
where the bay leaves the sea	A
twice a day and takes	C
the herrings long rides	B
	-
where if the river	D
enters or retreats	E
in a wall of brown foam	F
depends on if it meets	E
the bay coming in	G
the bay not at home	F
	-
where silted red	H
sometimes the sun sets	I
facing a red sea	A
and others veins the flats'	A
lavender rich mud	J
in burning rivulets	A
	-
on red gravelly roads	A
down rows of sugar maples	A
past clapboard farmhouses	A
and neat clapboard churches	A
bleached ridged as clamshells	A
past twin silver birches	A
	-
through late afternoon	K
a bus journeys west	L
the windshield flashing pink	M
pink glancing off of metal	N
brushing the dented flank	O
of blue beat up enamel	N
	-
down hollows up rises	A
and waits patient while	P
a lone traveller gives	A
kisses and embraces	A
to seven relatives	A
and a collie supervises	A
	-
Goodbye to the elms	A
to the farm to the dog	Q
The bus starts The light	R
grows richer the fog	S
shifting salty thin	G
comes closing in	G
	-
Its cold round crystals	A
form and slide and settle	N
in the white hens' feathers	A
in gray glazed cabbages	A
on the cabbage roses	A
and lupins like apostles	A
	-
the sweet peas cling	T
to their wet white string	T
on the whitewashed fences	A
bumblebees creep	U
inside the foxgloves	A
and evening commences	A
	-
One stop at Bass River	D
Then the Economies	A
Lower Middle Upper	D
Five Islands Five Houses	A
where a woman shakes a tablecloth	V
out after supper	D
	-
A pale flickering Gone	W
The Tantramar marshes	A
and the smell of salt hay	X
An iron bridge trembles	A
and a loose plank rattles	A
but doesn't give way	X
	-
On the left a red light	R
swims through the dark	Y
a ship's port lantern	Z
Two rubber boots show	A2
illuminated solemn	B2
A dog gives one bark	Y
	-
A woman climbs in	G
with two market bags	A
brisk freckled elderly	A
A grand night Yes sir	D
all the way to Boston	C2
She regards us amicably	A
	-
Moonlight as we enter	D
the New Brunswick woods	A
hairy scratchy splintery	A
moonlight and mist	D2
caught in them like lamb's wool	E2
on bushes in a pasture	D
	-
The passengers lie back	F2
Snores Some long sighs	A
A dreamy divagation	C2
begins in the night	R
a gentle auditory	A
slow hallucination	C2
	-
In the creakings and noises	A
an old conversation	C2
not concerning us	A
but recognizable somewhere	G2
back in the bus	A
Grandparents' voices	A
	-
uninterruptedly	E2
talking in Eternity	A
names being mentioned	H2
things cleared up finally	A
what he said what she said	H
who got pensioned	H
	-
deaths deaths and sicknesses	A
the year he remarried	H
the year something happened	H
She died in childbirth	I2
That was the son lost	H
when the schooner foundered	H
	-
He took to drink Yes	A
She went to the bad	H
When Amos began to pray	X
even in the store and	H
finally the family had	H
to put him away	X
	-
Yes that peculiar	D
affirmative Yes	A
A sharp indrawn breath	J2
half groan half acceptance	A
that means Life's like that	H
We know it also death	J2
	-
Talking the way they talked	H
in the old featherbed	H
peacefully on and on	C2
dim lamplight in the hall	E2
down in the kitchen the dog	Q
tucked in her shawl	E2
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Now it's all right now	C2
even to fall asleep	U
just as on all those nights	A
Suddenly the bus driver	D
stops with a jolt	H
turns off his lights	A
	-
A moose has come out of	K2
the impenetrable wood	H
and stands there looms rather	D
in the middle of the road	H
It approaches it sniffs at	H
the bus's hot hood	H
	-
Towering antlerless	A
high as a church	L2
homely as a house	A
or safe as houses	A
A man's voice assures us	A
Perfectly harmless	A
	-
Some of the passengers	A
exclaim in whispers	A
childishly softly	A
Sure are big creatures	A
It's awful plain	C2
Look It's a she	A
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Taking her time	M2
she looks the bus over	D
grand otherworldly	A
Why why do we feel	E2
we all feel this sweet	H
sensation of joy	N2
	-
Curious creatures	A
says our quiet driver	D
rolling his r's	A
Look at that would you	O2
Then he shifts gears	A
For a moment longer	D
	-
by craning backward	H
the moose can be seen	C2
on the moonlit macadam	B2
then there's a dim	P2
smell of moose an acrid	H
smell of gasoline	C2

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