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Not very long ago, the early
books of poems were reprinted

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and it was an odd experience for
me to read the proof on them.

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I hadn't looked at
them for so long.

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And now friends make
references to them

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and I've been asked to read
a few of them tonight and I--

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now that sounds apologetic
and I don't mean it that way.

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It's just that
they're very far away.

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And so they are like
somebody else's poems, which

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I'm not very familiar with.

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This is a poem from
the first book.

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I've got the wrong one.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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There's a poem called Song.

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Mirrors we lay
wherein desire traded

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by dark conceits of fire.

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As gardened minds whose delicacy
could neither close with flesh

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nor flee.

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Who watched by fire a
bush inflect what flame

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a window could reflect.

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Where dark and distance
were controlled.

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So the leaves burned
yet rested whole.

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But flesh dark
forest to the mind

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took at our breaths
repeated wind.

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And from our eyes
and equal glare.

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Our distance broke
and burned us there.

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In married dark these
fevers learn alternate loss.

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The bodies worn indefinite
attend together nights

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pleasure and the
press of weather.

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I'm thinking that must
have been written about--

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oh, back in the '40s.

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So.

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