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Hoa am I doing for time.

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I'll read three more poems
from "In This House".

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This one is titled, "Island".

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"The moment one says, it
is a moment of perfection,

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it is something less
than perfection.

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So on the island of Fernando de
Noronha, I will be quiet now.

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I will let the bird
speak Portuguese.

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I will let the water
speak dialects of green.

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I will let the rocks tell
me I was never really born

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and the vistas carry my
insights to an early death.

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I will let the breeze nudge my
ears off one cliff here and one

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cliff there.

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I will let the air
confiscate my passport.

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And I will let the sand
send my battles to the sea.

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Let them all simply make
an island out of me.

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The moment I say I
am lost without love,

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I will be something
less than lost."

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