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Autumn 1984 • Vol. VI No. 4 • Six Poems, Three Poets |

Hour Angle

   Stay the same
 as you are. And I will
(as if beggars could ride) go with you, that is
  stay the same …

   but perhaps
 more by changing: for so will you
if the ocean current of what is true
  is to carry us

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