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Doing a number of
poems where on waiting,

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try to capture the actual
threshold from sleep to what

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we call waking consciousness.

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And it usually means drawing
the dream forward into the light

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and seeing what the
admixture of dream and waking

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may produce rather
than dream itself.

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And I've been calling these--
sorry about my throat,

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calling these transcripts.

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And this first one is called
"Transcript Mother's Face."

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I woke up this morning staring
at a child who stood between me

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and a skeleton that
walked across the room.

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He said, look harder.

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Strips of what had
been a mother's face

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stretched tight
across the skull.

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The sockets gleamed until
she turned toward a doorway

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opposite the bed.

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The bones of her right
arm stretched out

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to park the curtains.

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As the child said, see it is
her blood that stains that.

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Why, I asked?

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Whose child are you?

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He said, the world bleeds while
you sleep and when you wake,

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it is a thing of bones.

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You, who give birth to nothing.

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