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Thank you, Melissa.

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I'm very happy to read it,
the reading with Alice Notley

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today.

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Leslie Scalapino
published some fragments

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I wrote about
communicating with plants

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in the last issue
of "War and Peace."

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And that helped me to continue
to finish the whole poems that

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were around those fragments.

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And so today, I'm reading
some of the whole poems, which

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are still a bit in process.

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The first one is
called "Glitter."

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And it started to
be about narcissism.

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But it moved into other things.

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It's in four parts.

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"A wood violet has
bloomed when I come back

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from my walk in early spring.

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I stop to welcome it,
cooing, walking around it,

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not as if I were floating,
but the surface of the world

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circled unfurling petals.

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My song is really
a manifestation

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without beginning or end of
trance, sleep, becoming sound.

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Person and violet with so
little in common, my voice

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reveals as a resonance
of unmanifest identity.

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The violet looking
back loses objectivity

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and enters the expansion
of recognized things.

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I could say our
identities reach out

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to encompass the forest
environment, like telepathy--

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a moment opens
space by rendering

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it transparent in
intensified consciousness.

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Others embrace weather
and wild land as means

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to the suprasensible in
violets, in emotional desire

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for spring light.

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Glitter the mirror.

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Connection, often
the form emotion

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takes, appears to me
as a visual image.

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Thoughts are sent out by one
rock informing other rocks

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as to the nature of its
changing environment.

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The angle of sun
and temperatures

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cooling as night falls
and even its loosely

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called emotional tone changes,
the appearance of a person

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walking who's not
appropriately empathic.

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Thoughts meet and merge with
other thoughts sent out,

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say, from foliage
and other entities.

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I tell you your own
thoughts and words

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can appear to inhabitants
of other systems like stars

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and planets to us.

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Intensities of thought,
light and shadow between us,

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contain memories coiled one
within the other through which

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I travel to you and yet are
beautifully undetermined.

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For what you say to me is not
finished within my thought

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or memory, but you grow within
my memory and change the way

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a shadow extends as light passes
over it in akashic emptiness.

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You grow through what I have to
say to you as a tree grows up

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through space.

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Then, what I have
to say changes.

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That's why we need the
identity of our physical forms.

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Here, we don't know what's
behind physical stars

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and planets.

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The tree encompasses
its changing form.

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While ego, my self of
physical experience,

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looks in the past for
something to recognize.

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Flexibility would be
the key word to another

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since the experience is plastic,
carrying a larger identity.

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When he looks into
my eyes, she said,

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I see adoration that
makes me feel wonderful.

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Then, I can do things.

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Here, we mean sun, alteration,
myself, our actions.

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The culture of
Tibet disappearing.

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1,000 hopes of David
Foster Wallace.

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Imbalance between
identities attempt

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to maintain and its
intrinsic drive results

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in an exquisite byproduct.

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Consciousness of self
so richly creating

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reality which seems plastic but
continues like a light beam,

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an endless series of beams.

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Creativity breaks
through identity.

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And my awareness flows
through transparency

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as spontaneous,
synchronous phenomena

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experienced with others today.

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Its changing light
and weather spectacles

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are fantastically aesthetic.

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The moment it sees
me, the violet

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grows more deeply purple
and luminous to me.

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Its looking collapses
violent frequency

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into a violent in the world,
cohering attention and feeling.

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What I perceive as
a flower in woods

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may be the shadow
of a flower being's

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action in fairyland,
a transcendent domain

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of potentia.

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The transparency I
imagine moving through

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is being through, not
actually seen or touched,

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not the buzzing of a
million invisible bees.

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What you call feeling, like
connective tissue or vibrating

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lines between us,
represents this vitality.

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And I prefer the term
vitality to time.

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In fairyland, all
violets are simultaneous.

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