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So after my father died about
a year and a half later,

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my mother died.

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And it was a much slower and
more in some ways difficult

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process because my relationship
with her was very fraught.

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And so I found myself
again writing about death

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but I needed to find
a very different form

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and this book came
together in a way

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that I sort of beyond
my even understanding.

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But the second work
had to be different.

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And so I was attempting to
actually push the sentence as

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long as possible and
try to find a way

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to surprise myself
to enter something

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I didn't understand that maybe
the language could draw to me.

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And so-- and I was very lucky
to have this book picked up

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by Tupelo, it won the Dorset
prize and so I just want

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to read to the poems from
that just as kind of a--

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guess to bring my mom here
because if dad gets 10 minutes,

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mom should get a
couple of minutes.

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So you know.

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And dad got his book
and so mom got hers so.

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So these poems are called After
Urgency and they're either one

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sentence, all one sentence
or two sentences --

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this is one sentence.

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After Urgency.

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How to draw the
constantly shifting

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selves together around
an object of scrutiny.

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And let this simply be the way
it's raining again outside.

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So lightly, hardly
more than fog.

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So that I leave
behind my umbrella.

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I open the door and then
decide to just stand

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at the very edge
of the front porch

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neither immersed
in nor protected

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from the suffusion in
the air of a nearly

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imperceptible rainfall.

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