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The class that I visited today
was asking about title ideas,

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and I was telling them that I've
run out of ideas, basically.

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So I'm just taking lines
from old poems of mine

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and making them titles of new
poems to drive someone crazy,

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if anyone decides to study my
poem sometime, and say, oh,

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what's going on?

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It's like a tapestry.

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[LAUGHTER]

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But this title is
from another poem,

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and it's called "What I See
Is the Light Falling All

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Around Us."

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"To have understood some small
piece of the world more deeply

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doesn't have to mean we're
not as lost as before,

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or so it seems this morning.

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Random bees stirring among
the dogwood blossoms.

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A few here and there stirring
differently somehow, more

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like resisting stillness.

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Should it come to
winnowing my addictions,

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I'd hold on hardest, I'm
pretty sure, to mystery.

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Though just yesterday, a perfect
stranger was so insistent

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that I looked familiar, it
seemed easier, in the end,

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to agree we must
know each other.

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To his body, a
muscularity both at odds

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and at one with how fragile
everything else about him

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I thought would be,
if I could see inside.

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What's the word for
the kind of loneliness

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that can feel like
swimming unassisted

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in a foreign language
for the very first time?"

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I don't know.

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That's why I ended
the poem there.

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That's always a good move.

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[LAUGHTER]