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I thought I would start with
a poem for Rosmarie Waldrop,

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because she just turned 80.

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And she was here I think
during my last year

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that I was in Tucson.

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"Nocturnal Amulet for
Rosmarie Waldrop."

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And beginning with the
quotation from Rosmarie.

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"Words that sleep in the body
all night and in the daytime

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come out and touch
you, like a warm hand."

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"Nocturnal words rove,
divert from daily script.

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Wolf and wild cat assurances,
molt moonlit words born feral.

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Others to avoid predation.

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Adjust opening and
closing operas.

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As a flower adapts phenology
toward pollinators,

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sage remarks demonstrate
chromatic response.

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Ermine or velvet crust
names exhibit varying color.

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Upper and lowercase
utterances graduating in tone.

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Light, belly, darker, back,
counter-shading paints

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out shadows, making solid words
flat while counter-illumination

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employs light.

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Words inhabiting
body by night flare.

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Prolonged, luminescent
in the visible now."

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