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Don't try to
understand the poem.

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There is a kind of death imposed
by those who try and understand

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it fully.

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Even just the understanding
impulse includes some desire

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to be done, some desire
to complete the experience

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that one might get on to
new experiences, new poems.

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But there is something
inherently indiscreet

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about a meaningful poem.

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It is in yourself or someone
else or the world making

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meaning and meaningful
things are always in motion.

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By the very nature of us,
people, finding them that way.

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Fire on it like a
Dante to his pigeon.

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One day disposed
of oxygen by flame.

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The poem in flux,
the reader in flux,

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the magnetic relation
of poems to each other,

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them shifting, tugging,
pulling each other

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into alignment or relation,
and it's less mystical

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than it sounds.

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If I have a pile small poems,
go through it, read it, listen,

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and it is not the
moment of any one thing

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but a shared momentum
tumbling together.

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The relational push and
pull as parts of one thing.

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No, not really that.

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You hear a sound, you
hear a sound repeated.

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And feeling those things
sometimes recognized,

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your relation to
both is changed.

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And there's to each other.

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In being recognized,
but just in being,

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too, you are writing, moving,
listening your way through.

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It's how the poems get made.

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As you bring new poems
into their space,

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as new poems are
there beside them

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being read aloud and heard,
time, tones of others

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dragged in and each new relation
with each new neighbor poem,

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causing shifts and changes.

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