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It's really nice to be able
to hear the sound of traffic

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in the outdoors
while I'm reading

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and it's so quiet in here.

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I've never experienced
that before.

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This is the first poem in my
book, it's titled "Sounds."

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"A man may read a
poem to write a poem.

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He may make love to find love.

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He will climb a mountain
to transcend a shadow.

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He may forget the years
to retrieve a day.

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In the assembly of life's acts
a man searches for his parts.

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He walks in the rain to
touch the veil of childhood.

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He waits for the sky to
break for a room to close.

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He smiles at a stranger
to let the unknown pass.

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And when sleep eludes him it is
not darkness that captures him,

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it is the years at the window
throwing light at his eyes.

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It is the ascension of shadows
dissolving from his frame.

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It is love's ephemeral body
trusting what is absent.

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Then a man may write a
poem to read a poem to her.

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When she is finished
listening her silence

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will begin to drop it's sounds
the way rain does not hurry

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to cover all that is ground.

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The way a horizon
gradually recovers

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from the passing of a train."

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