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Not all my poems are dark.

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This one also takes
place in Tucson.

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It's in two parts.

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Actually, just one of
the parts is in Tucson.

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Coming in for a landing, here.

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Some of the people in this
poem, I guess, are back.

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The title has a word in
it that also might need

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a little bit of explanation.

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The title is "Space, Light,
and a Blue Cyclorama."

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A cyclorama is the cloth that's
usually in the back of a stage

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to represent blue sky.

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"Space, Light and
a Blue Cyclorama."

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One.

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"The cosmos answers
an owl in a fig tree.

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Once I was loved by a woman
who, while canoodling amiss,

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acted as if I had the
only heart who mattered.

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And I believed it, but I
sat around crying anyway.

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I would receive love
letters from her

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as if nothing had happened.

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Maybe nothing had.

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The life you might have lived,
which you still remember,

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is composed of the soft
metaphysical murmurs

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of the world.

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You wander through
the desert on a quest

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for a ring of white petals
on the head of a stranger.

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There it is, a saguaro in bloom.

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The difference between
poetry and prose

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is that today is clanging
along very slowly,

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very fast, while
the official tableau

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is outside of time, hushed."

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Two.

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"Love is asleep.

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My darling dreams that I lose
my mind in a restaurant's powder

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room.

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When we leave after the
meal, it's still light.

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I take the wheel because
she's on the phone.

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She's on the phone
when she realizes

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I've driven off the road.

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Then perpendicularly,
to correct the mistake.

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I manage a U-turn and set
the car by the opposite side.

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By now she's red-faced.

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Also, I exited the restroom
with my hair soaking wet,

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but she hasn't had a
chance to ask about that.

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Tenderness has a million
questions it can't answer."