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- [INAUDIBLE] faculty of the
University of Arizona Poetry

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Center, Gail Browne, Frances
Sjoberg and [INAUDIBLE].

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And I would also like to thank
Kore Press and [INAUDIBLE].

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And I would finally like to
express my deepest gratitude

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to Wendy Burk and once
again to Frances Sjoberg

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for working enthusiastically
on the presentation of this chapbook.

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And I would like to thank
all those who came today.

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I'm going to start with a
poem called Felis catus.

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It's a poem about
death and being

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comforted by a cat.

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It's called Felis catus, and
it's in homage to S.

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Es la hora frutal y felina,
pelage de ámbar y cuarzo.

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Es la hora del
durazno bajo el frío,

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escarcha de jugo en
la gruta del vino.

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Es la hora del limón
tras el mimbre,

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tejidos de corona en la paja.

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Es la hora tibia del hábito,
lomo desierto de Sol y columna

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derruida.

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Es la hora del corazón
franqueado por la aguja,

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ojos dormidos en la
cuna de la sombra.

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Es la hora del aire vencido,
garra exacta de la luz en el

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borde de un espacio.

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Es la hora gato,
mansa y diestra.

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Nariz cubierta de tela y
uña clavada en el fieltro.

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Es la hora fruta, flor y carne.

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Heliotropo al viento
y ceniza reposando.

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Es la hora felina trashumante,
barda santiguada y fantasma.

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Es la hora del polvo reunido,
reliquia de la fruta y de los

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huesos.

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Es la hora del
rumbo de la tierra,

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gato y tiempo calcados
en la caída de la roca.

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Es la hora difusa, sin brocal
ni memoria y vino siempre la

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muerte, gato, vino.

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- Felis Catus.

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Can you hear me?

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It is the fruit and feline
hour, pelt of amber and quartz.

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It is the hour of the peach
tree in the cold, juice

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frosted on the grotto
of the window pane.

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It is the hour of the
lime behind the wicker.

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It is the warm hour of
habit, the sun's bleak back,

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and the column destroyed.

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It is the hour of the heart
pierced by a needle, eyes

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asleep in the cradle of shadow.

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It is the hour of defeated
air, light's exact paw

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on the edge of space.

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It is the cat hour,
tame and skillful,

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nose covered in cloth.

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Excuse me-- nose covered with
cloth and claws caught in felt.

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It is the hour of fruit,
flower, and flesh.

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Heliotrope in the wind
and ashes in repose.

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It is the feline hour,
migratory, wall blessed

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and ghost.

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it is the hour of dust reunited,
relic of fruit and bones.

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It is the hour of the
earth's course, cat and time

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traced in the
falling of the rock.

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It is the diffuse hour
without rim or memories,

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and death was always
coming, cat, it was coming.