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One of the things that
came up in class was--

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I felt challenged
by and I don't know

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whether it was meant that way.

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It didn't make any difference
because we were just looking

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for things to talk about
anyway-- but was how--

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do you ever feel more
intense about things

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than a lot of those poems seem?

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And I thought of a poem
called "In The Night Desert,"

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which I think I've
surely read here before.

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Most of these things I haven't.

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The Apache word for love
stings then numbs the tongue.

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Uttered once clear, said,
never that word again.

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Cousin you call or
sister and one more word

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that spins in the dust, a
flake chipped like obsidian.

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The girl who hears this flake
and follows you into the dark

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turns at a touch, the night
desert forever behind her back.

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