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<p><span class="line">When he said <a href="mountain.html">Bible</a> I heard his southern accent</span><span class="line">and he had a face I expect all pastors must have</span><span class="line">a round open honest face</span><span class="line">that will always be a boy’s face</span><span class="line">though its owner may rightly call himself a man</span><span class="line">near my age though I hardly call myself a man</span></p>
<p><span class="line">I have seen this face before whether in life or a dream</span><span class="line">I can’t tell</span><span class="line">if I’ve seen him on the street once</span><span class="line">twice who knows and his pastor’s <a href="moon-drowning.html">moon face</a></span><span class="line">reminds me of something</span><span class="line">some distant light my life used to own</span></p>
<p><span class="line"><a href="in-bed.html">One night on my birthday the moon was so strong it cast shadows</a></span><span class="line">I could see to the far hill and back it was all clear to me</span></p>
<p><span class="line">The moon hasn’t done that in a long time</span><span class="line"><a href="moongone.html">its face has been obscured by clouds</a> for weeks</span><span class="line">and that boy on the bus his face I’ve forgotten</span><span class="line">I thought I recognized a good number of people</span><span class="line">on that bus who I didn’t know at all</span></p>
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