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And the last poem,
"Coincidental."

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"It was the fragrance
of diesel, as she

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plucked a postcard from
a sidewalk carousel, that

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convinced her.

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She'd book passage
on a freight, journey

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to a land where the
language was a music she

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hadn't heard, because
all music enchanted her.

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No, it was the red striped hand
towels at the department store

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sale, the tiny
manufacturer's tag,

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words in a script she'd
never seen before,

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or a sound she recalled
from school, a marble that

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rolled down an
aisle between desks

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during the silence
of a history test.

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Piedro, it was Piedro, the
little boy next door who

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prayed with his family
at dusk behind the house,

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his accent which she
couldn't quite place,

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or the pack of blue cigarettes
left by an overnight guest,

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chocolates from a shop on a
street she could find only

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once, her grandmother's
bedspread depicting a folk

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dance, her preference
for the anonymous,

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for vessels, things
that float, stories that

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change each time they're told."

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Thank you so much for
coming to this reading.

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