<HEAD TYPE="poem">Man-Hauling</HEAD>
<LG TYPE="freeverse">
<L N="1">I am in your mind</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="freeverse">
<L N="2">you are in my mind</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="freeverse">
<L N="3">a boy from the north</L>
<L N="4">is tracking you the years</L>
<L N="5">like the Beardmore</L>
<L N="6">ready to be taken</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="freeverse">
<L N="7">forget the ponies and the dogs</L>
<L N="8">all the plans of science</L>
<L N="9">forget the Boadicea</L>
<L N="10">and the streets of Esquimalt, B. C.</L>
<L N="11">(even the Bligh connection)</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="freeverse">
<L N="12">all the books have been written</L>
<L N="13">critics move beyone the story</L>
<L N="14">to the words</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="freeverse">
<L N="15">no one wants interpretation</L>
<L N="16">(that local blizzard)</L>
<L N="17">no one is looking back</L>
<L N="18">but me</L>
</LG>
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