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I was asked to read one
poem, from a book length

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sequence of poems and I will.

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The title of the series
is The Escape Into You.

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And halfway through,
there appears

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this poem, which is addressed
to my sons and which is titled

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We Have Known.

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We have known such
joy as a child knows.

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My sons, in whom
everything rests,

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know that there were those
who were deeply in love,

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and who asked you
in, and who did not

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claim a tree of thoughts like
family branches would sustain

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you.

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My sons, in whom
I am well pleased,

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you will learn that
a man is not a child,

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and there is that which
a woman cannot bear,

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but as deep wounds for
which you may hate me,

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who must live in
you a long time,

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coursing obsessively
in the murky passages.

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These poems, also, are
such and such passages

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as I have had to leave you.

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If very little can
pass through them,

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know that I did, and made them,
and finally did not need them.

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We have known such joys as
a child knows, and will not

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survive, though you have them.

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