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I like finishing things.  Sometimes it takes a really long time!  I think I started this altered book about twenty years ago!  What!  I was showing it to my niece yesterday and noticed that there are just a few pages that aren't finished.  The book is mainly full of simple collages with a nature theme.  I pondered what I could do to finish those last pages.  Another like I have is poetry.  Well, that is the perfect way to finish this book.  A few nature-related poems.   Starlings in Winter by Mary Oliver Chunky and noisy, but with stars in their black feathers, they spring from the telephone wire and instantly they are acrobats in the freezing wind. And now, in the theater of air, they swing over buildings, dipping and rising; they float like one stippled star that opens, becomes for a moment fragmented, then closes again; and you watch and you try but you simply can't imagine how they do it with no articulated instruction, no pause, only the silent confirmation that they are t