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The Twin Falls They fall through my life and surround me Where I stand on a stone held between them, And help them sing down the lifting Ofleaves in the springtime valley. IfI move my bare arms, the wings Ofwater shake and are whiter. I dance on the unshaken stone And the rock rises up in my voice As water the shape ofmy shoulders Falls past without passing or moving. Lifting up the blind spirit ofbedrock, My voice falls in waves on the green Held up in a storm to receive it, Where trees with their roots in my standing Are singing it back to surround me And telling me how my light body Falls through the still years ofmy life On great, other wings than its own. The Hospital Window I have just come down from my father. Higher and higher he lies Above me in a blue light Shed by a tinted window. I drop through six white floors And then step out onto pavement. Still feeling my father ascend, I start to cross the firm street, My shoulder blades shining with all The glass the huge building can raise. Now I must tum round and face it, And know his one pane from the others. Drowning with Others / I I 8 ...

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