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<h1><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">I Call Your Name</font></span></h1>
<div class="MsoNormal">Before dawn I begin naming</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">the ten thousand things, one-</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">by-one, touching each with my mind</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">as they take their place in this world.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Orion, Cassiopeia, the moon hanging</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">like a scimitar over the horizon’s edge,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">and the milky swoosh arching over, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">all these find their places in the predawn sky.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Soon I call the crow out of the black nest</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">and the jay, blue against the rose light.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Then come the tall pines, needles and cones</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">and bark plates blackened from last year’s fire. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">The soft whisper of the wind</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">rustling the dry oak leaves </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">and stirring the spiny holly</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">waken with the early light.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">When the sun comes up, my words rush</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">to fill the land and space with forms,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">lines, and shadows defining each thing</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">with its proper name and lineage.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Where are you in all these words?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">I call your name to awake you</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">from the lures of the dark knight.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">I call your name. Come to me.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>- Newton Smith<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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