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OK.

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I'm just going to read
a couple more here.

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Some of these poems--

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I didn't want to put any
gender on these poems.

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So hopefully, I don't think
there's anything in there that

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shows the gender.

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I wanted-- deliberately
wanted it like that.

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It's called "Poem About You."

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Just to be near you, to watch
you awaken in your bed at dawn,

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to hear you say, Nidlohísh?

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Are you cold?

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Then you pull the red
blanket over my shoulders.

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Your heat feels like no others.

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Your heat feels like no
other lovers noon rendezvous.

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Your beauty stuns even in
the glare of this light.

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When you call, I'm all a fumble.

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Gathering the miles
and hours between us.

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My hungry heart and
chasing your kisses

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that settle with the
cups at my elbows.

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Your breath blowing
through my hair.

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You ask nothing of
me, yet I eagerly

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surrender my crusty obsessions
with time and cities.

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I can't go near you
without feeling the Earth

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sink through you.

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This wind is a painter shifting
the sand dune of our bodies

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on its canvas.

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At the edge of day, when I leave
you, I am nothing without you.

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