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So it's a great pleasure now
to read my most recent work

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to you, which as you heard,
is the book length sequence

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Thunderbird.

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Some of the words,
poems, each end

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with a line that then becomes
the title to the next poem.

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So I'll just start from the
beginning and read down.

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So you'll see how
that scrolls through.

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And then I'll just
pick some randomly.

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So Thunderbird opens
on the poem "Ecstasy."

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As the ancients detail
it, ecstasy passes over us

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in a mist of particles.

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It lives bare, dies unburied.

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I finally understand
it is raining.

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It is beautiful.

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A couple of hawks in a tree
and not the tree entire.

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"The Tree Entire."

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My head lies crushed sideways
in a pillow of a morning.

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I hear you both faintly
deciding whose fields

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to empty, to clear
cut first growth,

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knowing such an odious decision
is prompted by a greater

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emergency, a fire on your
watch where officially

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a firewall is called for.

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I accept your predicament.

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Your view obstructed
from your dark red couch

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on a nearby planet.

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As two shining stones, you
think the friction between you

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is blazing hot, and
not just death's

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genitals that are
a part of nature.

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