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[APPLAUSE]

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Hi.

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Thank you, Colleen.

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That was quite the introduction.

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I don't know what to
say except thank you.

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It's wonderful, very generous.

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And it's a pleasure being here.

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Can you hear me?

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Yes

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Yeah.

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It's a pleasure being here
and a little overwhelming.

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I feel like I've never read
to this large group of people

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in my life.

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So it's a little strange.

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And some are outdoors.

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And that's strange.

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It's strange to be in
a place where you can

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be outdoors this time of year.

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Anyway it's great to be here.

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Thanks Colleen.

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And Thanks Gail and
Cybele for inviting me

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and all your help
in getting me here,

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and Sharon, my former
student, for squire-ing me

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around the town, and Janice
and her excellent class

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this morning after I
arrived so terrified.

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Thank you for being kind.

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I guess I'm going
to read some poems.

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So it's going to be a mix of
things from Double Shadow,

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and Speak Low, and this book,
Silverchest that's coming out,

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and some newer poems.

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So we'll start with this poem.

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It's kind of short.

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It's called, "Just the
Wind for a Sound, Softly"

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"There's a weed whose name I've
meant all summer to find out.

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In the heat of the
day dangling pods

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hardly worth the noticing,
in the night blue flowers.

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It's as if a side of
me that he'd forgotten

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have forced into the light
briefly a side of him

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that I'd never seen before.

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And now I've seen it.

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It is hard to see anyone who
has become like your own body

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to you.

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And now I can't forget."

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Short.

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