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Thank you.

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It's a real treat to be here.

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Summer, once again.

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It's very cold in New England.

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I'd like to start
with a poem that

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talks about my childhood
in the beginning.

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I was born and raised in Greece.

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Sometimes, as a child, when
the Greek sea was exceptionally

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calm, the sun not
so much a pinnacle

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as a perspiration of light,
your brow and the sky meeting

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on the horizon.

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Sometimes you'd dive from the
float, the pier, the stone

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promontory.

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Through water so startled, it
held the shape of your plunge.

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And there, in the arrested
heat of the afternoon,

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without thought, effortless
as a mantra turning,

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you'd turn and the
paused wake of your dive.

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Enter the suck of
the parted waters.

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You'd emerge, clean
cesarean, flinging,

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live rivulets from your hair,
your own breath arrested.

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Something immaculate.

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A chance crucial junction, time,
light, water, had occurred.

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You could feel your bones
glisten, translucent,

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as mermaid spines.

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In rain, green Oregon
now, approaching 30,

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sometimes the same rare
concert of light and spine

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resonates in my bones
as glistening starfish

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lover your fingers beach up.

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