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It's called "Epithalamion."

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It's a wedding
song, very old form.

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Sappho wrote many epithalamia.

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It's how she earned her living.

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Our mound of Earth dug
up for a new bedroom

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is as graceful as the
dunes we drive to see.

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The scene dwarfs our scale.

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We feel it tugging at her brow
and bow, like guests in it,

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yet we for bending are allowed
to sing some blonde dunes

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surface.

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We believe would we
see through the image

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is the song at its source, and
so assume the world love shares

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our intelligence of
heart, the natural hug,

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the quick kiss overturned.

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The smog, like their smiles
more than what makes them smile.

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White cows in November meadows
and the galactic ravines.

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Venus enters the bull at
birth and again at will.

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A door shuts twice.

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The 12 rings of the
night, outposts, reefs,

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pockets of great abandon
what we imagined poetry

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to be as children, healed.

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As women we are
beautiful for remembering

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how to relax all fours
in an unmeasured field.

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The moment heals.

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Out past with the shale
you think is going to hold

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and doesn't.

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Silverfish leap from the water.

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Tears are worlds not seen.

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Thank you.

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