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I Kempton Pennsylvania	A
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Perhaps the last of the light	B
lifting this evening from the field of wheat	C
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means something Perhaps the view	D
includes us and we are not errors	E
in the landscape	F
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or meant to be erased The painter it's true	D
prefers not to preserve	G
our figures in the brush	H
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of hills layered into green Perhaps he too	D
is careless with the truth What lies	I
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have you had to tell to land you here	J
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outside Kempton with the creek rising behind us	K
How did the story sound If I say your hand	L
on my thigh the truck still idles	M
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beneath us tracks in the frozen road	N
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that months from now will thaw	O
amp heave If I say your mouth	P
and the deer begin drifting	Q
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across the field who's to say	R
we didn't call them out their figures shadowy	S
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their eyes gem like and glittering	Q
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II Undine	T
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It was all too urgent being human	U
You ordered drinks gestured	V
with your hands told stories	W
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and the more I knew	D
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the more I was frightened Those evenings	X
the air came unpinned got lost	Y
in autumn amp dusk in the leaves	Z
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at the edge of the field And weren't the edges themselves	A2
vanishing When you walked to the barn	B2
where the cats had gone in	C2
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taken to rafters I heard your footsteps	D2
moving the gravel the ice	E2
in your glass of vodka	A
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I listened like that	F2
for the ends of things the last of the cars the headlights crossing	Q
our bedroom I listened	G2
to your breathing	Q
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but rooms kept turning in places	H2
I could not ignore I left because I loved you	D
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without reserve Because I would not be allowed	I2
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to keep you with me in the world	J2
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III Kings River Canyon	U
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Because when you read it your voice shakes	K2
breaks over the last words	L2
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Because in the Pennsylvania Hospital	M2
at th and Spruce surgeons have split open your chest	N2
and with instruments	O2
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are cutting your heart	P2
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and because I wanted to hurt them because they never	Q2
get older but return each year	R2
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refreshed blond	S2
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I read the poem Rexroth walking back through the canyon	U
where twenty years before he had slept	T2
with his new wife	U2
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at the beginning of autumn	V2
It was her birthday	R
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and they lay there on the hard earth	W2
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the stream running beside	X2
and the walls soaring up	Y2
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to hold them there Maybe	S
he made love to her the air	Z2
chilling the skin	C2
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or maybe that was the disease	W
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beginning even then gathering itself deep	A3
inside her body considering	Q
the distance between itself	B3
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and the surface	K
There was no path	C3
They'd cut their way into the canyon	U
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where eighteen years later	Q2
a highway's been blasted through Eighteen years	D3
he writes ground to pieces	H2
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I am more alone that I ever imagined	G2
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You are dead And in the mechanical	M2
cool of the classroom	E3
I felt it grip me	S
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how it will be without you	D
when I'll be fifty five sixty	S
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in the beginning of winter in the first	F3
waves of snow I'll watch the slow drag	G3
of the Schulykill	M2
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or I'll go the garden where we met	H3
the leaves spinning down	I3
into the empty fountain	U
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where I will never see you	D
not again not your hands your face	J3
or hear aloud the way	R
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you said my name I'll turn	K3
and turn again	L3
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but you'll be gone nothing filling up your place	J3

Kate Northrop

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