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Probably read all together
5 poems from that book,

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which is called
The Moving Target.

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And one of the reasons I don't
want to read anything earlier

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is because The Moving Target
was a break with everything

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that I'd written before
that, and it would

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be hard to make any balance.

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So there seems to be
some thematic structure

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that runs through that book
that I was unaware of when

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I was writing those poems,
may have been simply

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the preoccupation of
the years in which they

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were being written.

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But there's the thing of
attachment and departure

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and the readiness for it and the
recognitions that go with it.

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And the next poem, which
is more specifically

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about that than those
other two poems,

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though they were about it to
the poem called "Finally."

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My dread, my ignorance,
my self it is time.

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Your eminence prowls the
palms of my hands like sweat.

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Do not now if I rise to
welcome you, make off

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like roads into the deep night.

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The dogs are dead
at last, the locks

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toothless, the
habits out of reach.

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I will not be false
to you tonight.

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Come, no longer unthinkable.

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Let us share understanding
like a family name.

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Bring integrity as
a gift something

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which I have lost, which
you found on the way.

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I will lay it beside
us, the old knife,

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while we reach our conclusion.

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Come, as a man who hears a
sound the gate opens the window

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and puts out the
light the better

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to see out into the dark.

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Look, I put it out.

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