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Thank you, Tyler, for
very amazing thing.

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I told my partner I
would take a picture.

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I said, they're going
to be like outside.

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I think he thinks that
five people show up.

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And I said, no,
it's not like that.

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So just hold on.

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I'll just do that thing and then
he'll see that, no, it's real.

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Because he always
says he has a real job

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and I just go around
and read poems.

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So is this all right,
this light thing?

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OK, so anyway, it's
great to be back here.

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I realize I saw in the book
that you sign and write memories

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of your visit here,
that I was here in 2012,

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so it's been a while.

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And thank you,
Tyler, for inviting

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me and Patri for all your help
and making it come together.

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Janice for the class that
was fun to visit today

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and all the students there.

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Marc for chauffeuring me around
and not flinching when I said I

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want to buy some wine
at 9:30 in the morning.

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And obviously the Poetry Center
and University of Arizona.

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It's great that everyone's here.

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So I'm going to read
poems that are mostly--

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half of them are from this
new book, Wild is the Wind,

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and then the rest are from a
chapbook that, to my surprise,

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I'm doing next year.

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And then the rest are
from a book that--

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a book book-- that's
coming out year after that.

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But that doesn't matter.

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Anyway, so I'm
just going to read.

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This is called "A Little
Closer, Though, If You Can,

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for What Got Lost Here."

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"Other than that, all was still.

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A quiet so quiet
that as if silence

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were a kind of spell and
words the way to break it,

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they began speaking.

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They spoke of many things.

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Sunset as a raft leaving the
water in braids behind it.

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Detachment, the soul,
obedience, swans rowing

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at nightfall across a
sky filled with snow.

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What did they wish they could
see that they used to see?

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To mean no harm or to
not especially just now

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be looking for it.

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What would they wish not to
see could they stop seeing?

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Courage mattering so much
less than not spooking easily.

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Maybe all nerve is.

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The search and rescue
map wildflowers

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make of a field in summer.

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Deserving it versus asking
for it versus having to ask

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and being softly turned from.

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They said it would
hurt and it does."

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