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I thought I'd read the
first poem in Tremble.

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It's called "Floating Trees."

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"a bed is left open to a mirror

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a mirror gazes long
and hard at a bed

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light fingers the house
with its own acoustics

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one of them writes this down

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one has paper

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bed of swollen creeks
and theories and coils

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bed of eyes and leaky pens

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much of the night
the air touches arms

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arms extend themselves to air

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their torsos turning
toward a roll

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of sound: thunder

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night of coon scat and
vandalized headstones

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night of deep
kisses and catamenia

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his face by this light: saurian

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hers: ash like the
tissue of a hornets' nest

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one scans the aisle of firs

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the faint blue line of them

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one looks out: sans serif

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"Didn't I hear you
tell them you were born

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on a train?"

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what begins with a sough
and ends with a groan

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groan in which the tongue's
true color is revealed

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the comb's sough and the
denim's undeniable rub

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the chair's stripped
back and muddied rung

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color of stone soup
and garden gloves

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color of meal and
treacle and sphagnum

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hangers clinging to their coat

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a soft white bulb to its string

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the footprints inside us

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iterate the footprints outside

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the scratched words
return to their sleeves

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the dresses of
monday through friday

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swallow the long
hips of weekends

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a face is studied like a key

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for the mystery of
what it once opened

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"I didn't mean to wake you

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angel brains"

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ink of eyes and
veins and phonemes

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the ink completes the feeling

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a mirror silently facing a door

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door with no lock no lock.

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the room he brings into you

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the room befalls you

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like the fir trees he trues her

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she nears him like the firs

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if one vanishes one stays

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if one stays the other
will or will not vanish

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otherwise my beautiful green fly

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otherwise not a leaf stirs"

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[APPLAUSE]