Thank you so much.
Thank you so much, Poetry Center.
Thank you so much, Tucson.
So good to be back.
My heart is here, right here in the Poetry Center.
I'm going to start by reading a poem by Chase Twitchell's book
The Snow Watcher-- by Chase Twitchell
from her book The Snow Watcher.
It's by Chase Twitchell's book.
It's called "The Year I Got Rid of Everything."
The year I got rid of everything,
a huge invisible magnet dragged me up into its powers.
It lifted me high above the beautiful wool
carpets and the books.
I put on a dress made of bones and danced alone
in the great emptiness.