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So I'm going to read a
few new poems and an older

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poem and then just end with
one more series from the book.

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So this poem I
wrote long time ago.

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It's in the chapbook that I
have published as an ebook,

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and it's called "Fourth Wall
as Spatial Design for Lovers."

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"Outside the yard,
you're mixing paints

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for the new voltage of the body.

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How much can you charge
her before she rips off

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into the night?

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Green on blue, red on
orange, the difference,

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pigment, 1 teaspoon
of sun jammed down

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the throat of a passerby
will not save us.

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The Plexiglas is a shield
between you and the nude.

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Her breasts pucker as she
falls asleep in the declining

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day, sprawled on
the carpet, her most

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intimate sleep in your gaze.

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You have to wake her to
arrange the limbs again,

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frozen and drowsy,
slightly overweight.

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She is as your mother
would have been

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if she had been someone else,
a model, a woman, not a wife.

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You circle the house on a wish.

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How many directions
can you invent her?

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Firestorm in the
distance, nuggets of rock

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break the sky into its
elements, blue from yellow,

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our bodies from what it
takes us to get there.

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The paint feels wet
through the glass.

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It's you, alone in the room in
the lessening light, suspended

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in her heat, a double
image, no face but hair

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like a talisman for
the wrong gender.

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I was sunbathing on the rock
face when I said I liked you.

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It's easier to cross with
our other bodies here,

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performing the functional tasks,
eating, sleeping, speaking

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in each other's
ears, ambulation.

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A nice walk is
profoundly calming.

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6:00 AM, the sun charges
you, a chemical bath,

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two parts your palette
hums in its beauty.

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Otherwise, we are caustic.

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We are planning
ourselves in shy light.

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The paint covers your body,
charcoal on your forearms,

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as you throw yourself
against the paper.

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Wouldn't it be funny to
mark yourself to a plane

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where a woman owns
her sexual organs,

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where you fly your own body
out as the nude blissed

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and in terror?

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I watch, my breath
regulating, the air traveling

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in even waves, a daily
swap with yoga

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in the chair, in the yard.

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Who can say in which
direction we will turn?"

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