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song

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sunrise filtered through the mist / along the alsea river, / the morning becoming light, / the darkness becoming day / by gradual variations, / autumn preparing for death, / death preparing for the night

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where neskowin and hawk creeks / join just before emptying / into the pacific, we / stand, my love and i, to eye / the rising sun, the morning / mist, the light reflected on / the wet sand, the rising tide

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rain falling on the river, / the same river but never / the same, the sunrise stretching / like a bridge beneath the clouds, / the same sunrise but never / the same, the rain not raining / very hard, the sun rising

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sagebrush, rabbitbrush, broken / glass at my feet, i climb up / to the hills west gazebo, / yakima river bending / into the columbia / below, both flowing gladly / into the pale sunrise light

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the sunrise a gash / in the malaise of / this socked-in monday morning / carpet woven of the sun / from the frayed ends of / the end of summer

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this river was my / consolation when / i suffered the desert of / those days of youthful yearning / and nothing has changed / now that i am old

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electricity / pulses through the trees / the sunrise blazing behind // the hotel drapes of the gods / the sidewalks empty / the runways ready

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song

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sonnet

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