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This is a poem called, "Books."

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And it's after a
professor of mine

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that I had at the University
of Virginia, Gregory Orr.

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One of his books was called
Concerning the Book, Which

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is the Body of the Beloved.

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So this poem is a
take on that title,

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which I thought was really
beautiful and rhythmic.

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"Books."

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For the bolt of the body in
the hinge of the darker door,

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when the beloved is a density of
threads, concerning all ingots,

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all hinges, all belts,
concerning the fastness

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where the body stalks.

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For the fin of white, which is
the stalk of the beloved body,

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where to stalk, where to
ride, where to strike,

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where to strike the
beloved in the body,

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for the armature that
strikes at the beloved dark.

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Concerning the varieties of
striking sounds in the body

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for the beloved strike
that strikes once,

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when the sound of the beloved
is the wood of the pear tree,

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concerning the tree that
roots in the beloved dark.

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Concerning the
dark that branches

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the body, a sound through the
branches of the beloved skin.

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When the braid of the
beloved brushes the collar

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bone, when the breath of the
beloved appears on a glass--

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beloved terraces, beloved
darkness, beloved doors,

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concerning the door of the
body, which is a body's breath.

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For the burn of the body
at the edge of the door,

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near the edge of the
body of the beloved.

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A breath on the body of the
beloved, on the body, which

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is a garden of unfolding
edges, for the garden where

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the beloved unfolds."

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