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And I think maybe last
I'll read the poem that

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was made into a broadside here,
which is called Written Deer

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and which was inspired by
a line of a Szymborska poem

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which I love.

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So the epigraph is her line.

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Why does this written doe bound
through these written words?

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My handwriting is
all over these woods.

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No, my handwriting
is these woods.

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Each tree, a half print,
half cursive scrawl.

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Each loop, a limb.

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My house is somewhere
here, and I've

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scribbled myself inside it.

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What is home but a
book we write then

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read again and again each time
dog earing different pages.

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In the morning, I wake in
time to pencil the sun high.

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How fragile it is, the world.

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I almost wrote the
word but caught myself.

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Either one could be erased.

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In these written woods,
branches smudge around me

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whenever I take a deep breath.

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Still, written fawns lie
in the written sunlight

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that dazzles their backs.

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What is home but a passage.

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I'm writing and underlining
every time I read it.