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And this is a--

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there's a long sequence called
"Paragraphs from a Daybook"

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in Squares and Courtyards.

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The paragraph is a form invented
by one of my favorite poets

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Hayden Carruth, whom,
although I know him

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only through correspondence,
really consider him,

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like Marie Ponsot, a mentor.

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And-- nothing much
to say about it--

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it's a 15 line form with
regularly irregular lines

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and bent rhyme scheme, and that
doesn't really matter much.

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What really, I think, matters
was my desire to make the form,

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that one poet had
invented, into a form that

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exists in the language, because
once two people have done then

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it exists in a different way.

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And this one is, in
fact, a direct response

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to a sequence of Hayden
Carruth's and he's

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appeasing it.

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"Death is the scandal
we wake up to,

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Hayden, that flash in
childhood, then every blue day.

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Once conscious of desire, we are
laden with its accountability.

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Death and the singer,
death and the maiden,

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duets you've taken both voices
and played into measured words,

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their numbers cast out lines
which lured a shape out,

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past the lovely bodies,
which it mimed and praised.

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Now, the dazzling shape's
your own daughter's

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in the dance, appalled,
amazed, as sound waves track

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disaster and bone.

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Futile and gorgeous
gestures, words employed,

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tracking the
inconscient revolution

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of the wheel, whose spokes
revolve around a void."