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I'm going to end with
some of the Amanda poems,

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I'm not certainly going
to read all eight of them,

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but I like to give you
a feeling for them.

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They tend to have long titles
and to be rather small.

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This one is called Amanda
Dreams She Has Died and Gone

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to the Elysian Fields.

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This morning Amanda lies
down during breakfast

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The hay is hip high

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The sun sleeps on
her back as it did

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on the spine of the
dinosaur, the fossil bat

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The first fish with
feet she was once

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A breeze fans the deer
flies from lighting

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Only a gaggle of gnats
house keep in her ears

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A hay plume sticks
out of her mouth

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I come calling with
a carrot from which I

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have taken the first bite

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She startles, she considers
rising but retracts

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the pistons of her legs
and accepts as loose lipped

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as a camel

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We sit together in
this time and place

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we are heart and bone for
an hour we are incorruptible

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