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It's good to be back in Tucson.

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I wanted to sort
of-- you can probably

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see claw marks all the
way back to Albuquerque.

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I'm going to grab onto as
many saguaros and ocotillos

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as I can on the way
back, so there going

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to be a little trail of cacti.

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Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
sing is with us, songs.

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Phenomenal editor Allison
Hedge Coke, thank you.

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University of Arizona
Press, thank you so much.

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You've been really
wonderful to me.

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And I told Patty earlier,
I said, I'm still on that--

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I'm still writing a
lot of Shapeshift.

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I'm still doing what I
did, and I thank Patty

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for helping me with that,
with beginning that process.

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It's pretty been pretty
phenomenal, 6 years later or 10

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or 7 years later or something.

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I don't know.

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But anyways, thank you
also the Poetry Center.

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Gail and Cybele, thank you.

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I'm going to read "Calyx" from--
it's the opening poem in Sing.

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And I'll read a few
poems that are in here.

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But I also want to read--

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I really feel like I'm really
compelled to share a poem

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by the third
person, I feel like,

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who was with us at the beginning
of that moment in Colombia

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at the International
Poetry Festival,

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and his name is Hugo
Jamioy, and he is Kamëntsa.

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And I'll just read a
couple of poems from him.

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Really, really a phenomenal
poet and just a generous soul.

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And I really feel like, when
I think back to that time,

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his sincerity was so rich.

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And I tried to reach that
kind of place in my own self,

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but I failed many times.