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Translating the work of
someone you love very much

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is a very intimate experience.

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And the night that I finished
the book, I had a dream.

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It's called "After
the Little Mariner."

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"I woke up in the dark of a
moon steamed against glass,

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black as of glazed with
ebony or soft lead handled

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in the blind of
another's dream, and he,

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the crossroader, the atmospheric
horseman, the marksman who

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can calm the deep by
taking a teenager down

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from his constellation and
instructing him to walk

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across the surf, then
kneel inside the pelago,

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a broadcast charging the
elements with Rilke's terror,

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and my soul ran
in the air above,

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the bedclothes rustled
though my limbs on the bed

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were paralyzed, transparent.

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I could see a ribbon song begin
from the lungs of his penis

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inside my body like a swallow
of ice cold milk in August,

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gleaming and slow like mercury,
upstream and through my lips,

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and then my soul fell
into or my body rose."