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Well, does that work?

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Good.

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So I want to thank
the Poetry Center

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for inviting me to read and
have the honor with reading

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with Karen and Anne.

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It's very lovely to be here
and see all of your faces,

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so thank you for coming.

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So I don't talk a
lot between poems.

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I know some people do that, so
I guess if you have questions,

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you can ask me
afterwards, maybe.

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And my first poem is
going to be the title

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poem of the book,
Noctilucent, which

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means light produced in
darkness, so I will say that.

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"Noctilucent."

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"In speaking of kyanos, cyano
blue, a dark blue mineral

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and designations of certain
bluish salts and minerals,

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of cyanide, cyanic, the
blueness of skin, cyan,

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the blueness of sky whose
greenish blue is like water

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breathed in, supplants
air, my cyanosis,

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condition in which
the skin appears

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blue from no oxygen
in the blood.

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Blue the blue of painted Greek
boats, blue mercury light,

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alive with the
kindling of moths,

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shy, shining in the night,
little noctilucae not marred

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in their bioluminescence,
night glow if bugs,

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making marine
phosphorescence like love.

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Latin moon-lantern,
Japanese moon-lanterns

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strung orange for the
night-walk to a lover's door,

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preceding electric blue
lights of the city.

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From space, nights
are illuminated

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by noctilucent clouds, waves,
beaches, and celestial orbs,

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migrations of aquatic plants
whose cyan flight is mutable

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change in light,
dark the homes we

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make glowing in other bodies,
our lovers asleep inside us."

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