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OK, I also wanted to
do some women's poems.

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Some would argue all of my
poems are women's poems, but.

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The first one is going to be
the title poem from the borders

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book which begins with a
quote by Carol Gilligan.

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My research suggests
that men and women

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may speak different languages
that they assume are the same.

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If we're so bright,
why didn't we notice?

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The side by side translations
were the easy ones.

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Our tongues tasted Luna
chanting, chanting to the words

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it touched.

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Our lips circled moon
sighing its longing.

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We knew similar but different.

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And we knew of grown
up talk, how even

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in our own home like became
unlike, how the child sings

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song I want, I want
burned our mouth when

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we whispered in the dark.

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But us, you and I who've talked
for years tossing words back

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and forth success, happiness
back and forth over coffee,

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over wine, in parties, in bed.

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And I was sure you
heard, understood

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though now I think of it.

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I can remember
screaming to be sure.

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So who can hear
the words we speak?

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You and I like but unlike
and translate us to us

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side by side?

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