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<DIV>IX. After the Great Northern Expedition<br>trainer flips young alligators over on their backs,<br>Yes. The obvious<br>they sit with their wives all day in the sun,<br>Mère and Père Chose are walking away from the<br>Grateful, I know, for just such compensations,<br>Dismal, endless plain—<br>They move against, or through, or by, or toward.<br>As if your absence now concluded long ago.<br>Seized from creation by nonentity,<br>Cuts out of its width (81). Unfair<br>demonstrating their talent for comedy—stroke<br>Allowing me to let your picture form and wake<br>At San Biagio, in the most intense room<br>XXI. Flying in the Arctic<br>At the end of the road. Even if they are staring<br>Père and Mère Chose could be in conversation<br>The pain of being born into matter.<br>Your gloved hands covering your lips' good-bye<br></DIV>
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