| The faint sound of a drum solo that told us we were nearing land | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| I pause just to take it all in | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| The familiar anthems of childhood | #ChehalemValley #ChehalemMountains #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Just the right chord can bring you to tears | #BaldPeak #ChehalemMountains #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| This is the way it must be. After all | #WilsonRiverTollRoad #Tillamook #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Singing every song it ever knew | #KansasCreek #WilsonRiverTollRoad #DemoleyWilsonCountyPark #Tillamook #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Now I can feel my voice begin to fly | #WillametteRiver #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Listen to the chords shifting under the music | #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| This is the part I will still wonder about when I am dying | #KansasCreek #WilsonRiverTollRoad #DemoleyWilsonCountyPark #Tillamook #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| There is a part of me that wants to let go of the wheel | #WillametteRiver #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| To lift them back into the light of earth | #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| The tone of afternoon light | #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| The world's body keeps pressing up against us with the weight of its beauty | #WolfPoint #SmithHomestead #Tillamook #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Light on one smooth green side, shadow on the other | #Garibaldi #TillamookCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Before there were names for the earth's uncountable things | #KansasCreek #WilsonRiverTollRoad #DemoleyWilsonCountyPark #Tillamook #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Time will go by the way it did before history, pure and unnoticed | #CedarCreek #SmithHomestead #Tillamook #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| After we have finished here, the world will continue its quiet turning | #WolfPoint #SmithHomestead #Tillamook #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Rising into that high dome of thought | #WolfPoint #SmithHomestead #Tillamook #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| I look beyond the treetops and the distant ridges | #WolfPoint #SmithHomestead #Tillamook #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Afternoons when I leave the house for the woods | #WilsonRiver #SmithHomestead #Tillamook #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| All you have to do is listen | #JonesCreek #SmithHomestead #Tillamook #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Translation from a language I do not know | #WolfPoint #SmithHomestead #Tillamook #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| You are more like the sunlight | #GalesCreekRoad #ForestGrove #WashingtonCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| She dreams a little | #StringtownRoad #ForestGrove #WashingtonCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Where your shadow might have reached forever | #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| On a lawn where you would have stood in the green chamber of another summer | #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| That is the way the light will shine | #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Its use in long-forgotten rituals, perhaps of a sacrificial nature | #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| You can see the light that must have fallen | #NeahkahnieMountain #Manzanita #TillamookCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| The work finished, done for the day | #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| A very powerful sense of something | #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| I'm not sure where we're supposed to be | #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| I'm lost | #ChampoegStatePark #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Nothing but silence | #DundeeHills #Dundee #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light | #DundeeHills #Dundee #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| I want to daydream here | #DundeeHills #Dundee #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| I would like to spend the day on the slope of a mountain | #DundeeHills #Dundee #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| How to set the heart right | #DundeeHills #Dundee #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| I want to remove my hat, close my eyes, and feel the sun | #DundeeHills #Dundee #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Waiting and listening | #NeahkahnieMountain #Manzanita #TillamookCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| This day might be resting somehow on the one before it | #HarveyCreek #HarveyCreekTrail #Dundee #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Everything is in its place but so precariously | #HarveyCreek #HarveyCreekTrail #Dundee #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| This is when I feel the tongs of the world letting go of me | #TwinRocks #RockawayBeach #TillamookCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| Up goes my glass to the first man ever to notice the outline of a bear in the stars one quiet night | #TwinRocks #RockawayBeach #TillamookCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| No one would have ever guessed I was being lifted into the air | #TwinRocks #RockawayBeach #TillamookCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| I have always loved this harmony | #MtHood #DundeeHills #YamhillCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| He continues his swimming deep into the night | #TwinRocks #RockawayBeach #TillamookCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| A soft light shines | #NeahkahnieMountain #TillamookCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| All the poems that have moved in my hands | #NeahkahnieMountain #TillamookCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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| This is the real earth and the real water it contains | #TwinRocks #RockawayBeach #TillamookCounty #Oregon | Billy Collins in the Art of Drowning |

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