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17 A wedding night A groom goes out with a pillow to where the sheep are white bushes across the hill. Dirty white bushes across the hill and places his pillow at the top, just before the top, a few inches from the top for his head so he can see, almost, yes, he can see the curve of the earth, out where there is only water. But there is a ship on the only water, on the curve of water to his left and right, as the dirty white bushes move, as the ship moves to the east along the curve, and he thinks of how his pillow will smell in his bed, beside his bride, of grass and sea salt and the curve of the earth and coming home, she will breathe all of these when she leans over him, drapes his face with the night of her hair, the curve of her falling to all sides, from a center, from a moon, from an asking, from a giving, from now on. hicok pages i-120.indd 17 1/7/10 3:23 PM ...

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