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I'd sent them off in
letters to friends

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or keep them in that way that
is for another person but kept,

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waiting for James
one day, and actually

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the same thing with
Susie, I remember,

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waiting for them to come
by, writing one just

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to be waiting more presently,
I think, with them,

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excited to be with them
and not sharing it,

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I guess, to be more
with them, too.

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Crushed and ragged
piece of street

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in which I waited all morning.

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My tongue and my face
feel no thing anymore.

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There's a time when I started
thinking about the book.

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I wanted the social experience
of sharing expanded,

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being in people's
lives over time,

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entering, returning
to, being lived with,

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shared, made private, almost
singular, and in relation

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to you being physical things.

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Basho used to slip a poem
into the conversation.

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And if it went unnoticed,
it was a success.

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I think of those and the
unsuccessful ones, too.

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Never even getting
written down, just

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awkwardly remaining a
part of the conversation.

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And some poems find the outward
quality of a private experience

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fulfills in all ways
their outward needs.

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Love poems can do this
simply by being given,

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or the poem you kept
reading all summer,

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meaning all that summer
and not this, or writing.

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Imagine an occasional
poem unwittingly

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making it so and making
the occasion along with it.

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And they're lost as many private
little gifts, like breath,

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still entering the air
ephemeral and real.

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Storm left flat, green
leaves still live,

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and a little bucket of
flesh colored fruit.

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The poems themselves
mimicking a little batch away

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as I tucked myself away.

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The poems sent or
shed in relation

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to the needs or social
impulses caused and gone

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from feeling love with
thoughtless persons and days

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flat heap of news.

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This life's a moon and, in some
older time, was planets, too,

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a trying voice
spoke-- be home soon.

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Sky not some cold, rainy
thing, but blue before

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and turned away, this frozen
gush, my fever now full

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leaked of summer.

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Being that which does
on a dead bulb flower,

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land palm and different
with barely yellow feather.

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Jay said, stopping past
the storm on their way

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south October, to watch
them while they're here.

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