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looking east and west / i see birds and clouds / i see pavement and bridges and hills // i see the suggestion of / sunrise and blue skies / what is it i see

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the morning of my / travel day i look / outside to see what the sky // portends for flying machines / a glimmer of sun / seems to say let's fly // even better luck / a pileated / woodpecker arrives as if // to say today you might die / but even so it's / a good day to fly

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sixty chunks of ice / floating near the shore / one for each of my fifty-nine // years just now melting away / plus the sixtieth / one I'm standing on

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faced with a gray sky / i stand a moment / at the dull tip of a point / sticking out in the morning / into the river's / melting and flowing

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pre-raphaelite / pigments in the sky / shot out from the horizon // above a house and its trees / bruised blue electric / vermillion gold sun

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continue turning / away from winter / from within the winter cold // hear the birds and see / the steam drift up the / branches of another day

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