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The next reader is
Tedi López Mills.

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Good evening.

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I've made a change of plans.

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Instead of reading
two poems in English,

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I'm going to read one of
the long poems I have chosen

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in English and then I'll
read it to you in Spanish

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since I translated quite
a few of Sobin's poems.

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"Eleven Quatrains and
a Note from Ventadour."

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for Brad.

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"Neither this world's
nor another's,

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that broken house with
its books and wind,

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bells sewn on the
breathing veils between.

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With their wire,
moon-flat baskets

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came searching for
the rain's meat.

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Those readers of
ditches, dark margins.

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As if listening in that barge
of blue chalk and choked

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linen, to her own
waves as they rose.

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Over the fixed smoke of
the almonds, the other,

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the gypsies', their rabbits
roasting in the windless light.

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Untouched, grown monstrous
with my own shadows, oh,

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hooded lilies, the sun shimmying
upon the skin of the ditch.

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Way the eyes slide an
instant slower than the face,

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the hair lugged like a trophy
over the shoulders after.

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You only could take your
gaze from my keeping.

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Tease it, cold, nebulous,
through the taut shadows

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of your teeth.

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The heart forever offered,
entrusted to its own

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preditions, that weird
inadmissible rose,

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valentin froissé.

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Glances backwards through
the vaulted loop of her arms.

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Rasp, as the blue rhinestone
hair clips slip under.

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In these white shadows,
the windlight we live in

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would perish without
the word-pleated waves,

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that cadence we give them.

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As the petals catch against
the blond canebreaks,

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say, say nothing, it's enough.

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If a wrist went blind
on its own whispers,

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always towards the
end, the grammarians,

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albas, our dawn songs,
on what terraces,

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onto the carved
waters of what viol

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shall our hearts be pitched?"

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And now in Spanish.

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