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And since this is a new
book, I feel like I'm here

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to read it to you.

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I'll start with a little
paragraph of thanks.

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Many thanks to the University of
Arizona for the provost author

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support grant that assisted
the publication of this book,

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and many thanks to Lisa
Bowden of Kore Press for her

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inspired design
and creation of it.

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Endless gratitude to my devoted
readers, which are many,

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especially Beth Alvarado,
especially Jane Miller,

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Boyer Rackel and
Jacqueline Culley,

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who cheered these poems on.

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This book is dedicated to
my cousin, Dirk Charles

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Clodfelter, 1946 to 1971, and to
his mother, my aunt Marguerite

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Cully Clodfelter, 1922 to 2011.

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This first poem draws from
one of the I think origin

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myths in the German culture.

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Siegfried and
Brunhilda, and the title

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is from you'll recognize
Emily Dickinson.

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A wooden way, regardless grown.

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Siegfried's ash difficult
way, love, is not want not.

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Not shepherd's tale, not that
strong-made voice wrested from

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the king of scraped-clean forest
forms and looming from which he

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or we look away,
cannot or must not.

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Significantly larger still,
sinewy curved West wall

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gouged as apparent human figure,
defined in distant circles

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cut to scale.

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That place where feudal hall,
vanishing pointillist, semen

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and blood, lover waif back--

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back to Brunhilde.

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Quill of quiet rasp of
songs made brittle now

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behind the eye, gate
across lacerated field.

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