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1	After the Rebuilding
2	Crossing
3	First Lesson
4	Ganglia
5	Like a Woman
6	Long Afternoons In Dakota
7	Nightsong
8	One Man's Wife
9	Parting
10	Passage Without Rites
11	Post-Equinox Spectra
12	Public Broadcast

First Lesson

Lie back daughter, let your head
be tipped back in the cup of my hand.
Gently, and I will hold you. Spread
your arms wide, lie out on the stream
and look high at the gulls. A dead-
man's float is face down. You will dive
and swim soon enough where this tidewater
ebbs to the sea. Daughter, believe
me, when you tire on the long thrash

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