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Hello to you.

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I have a lot of objects up
here, but don't be frightened.

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Since this is an
ecopoetics series,

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I thought I would read
for a good portion of time

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from the California poem.

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And I'm going to do things
a little bit opposite.

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I'm going to start by
reading an end-note.

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Because when I was here 10
years ago at Jane Miller's

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invitation, she said
this amazing thing.

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And it keeps
showing up in poems.

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And so I'm going to read my
version of what Jane Miller

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said, and end-note number one.

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"In the East, might
they think an echinoderm

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is a series of snowflakes
one piled up to the next?

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In the West, it's that
plum that is not a word.

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It's something you eat.

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It's full of design."

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So to find out what
poem that goes to,

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you have to look at the book.

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Actually, I have to do
something technical for a moment

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before I start here,
so please forgive me.