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Hi.

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Well, what a wonderful privilege
to read with Melissa and Karen.

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And I just want to say as the
summer resident, the Poetry

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Center, I'm so
grateful to Allie,

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and to Gail, and to the
Poetry Center for giving me

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the opportunity to
come here and write.

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It's been completely amazing.

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And thanks to all of you
for coming this evening.

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It's been wonderful.

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I'm going to start with a
poem from my new book that's

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forthcoming in this coming
December from Persea.

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It's called "Dido In Winter."

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"Invitation."

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Voices drift across the lawn and
form in the shape of clovers.

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A slight breeze
bezels the fish pond.

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Lens of grainy light, black
cord covered with electric tape.

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Kneel on the concrete.

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Tile, sedge.

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Coy ghost out to
meet you, blunt edged

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hunger curving blindly up.

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Take this bract that
rises and subsides.

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Butterscotch or red
and white, their bodies

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slick as sorrow, lathered
with the cold, unseemly weed.

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Elsewhere, there's a party.

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Clink of glasses,
square of kitchen light.

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Elsewhere a pair of pliers
spreads its implicate beak.

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A hooded sweatshirt gestures
from the bottom of a lake.

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Here, put these on.

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You're going to need the
leather gloves I tossed off

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in the shed.

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Speech is just an instrument
to register the night.

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I offer you no hook, no
tool, nothing to make fast.

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No metal implement with
which to cut or mend.

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