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The last time I read
here at the Poetry Center

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I read with Eloise Klein Healy.

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And shortly after
that, she contracted

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a form of encephalitis that
left her with one syllable.

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One.

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Imagine a poet
with one syllable.

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I'm glad to tell you
that she has recovered

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from that kind of deficit,
which has never been recorded

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in all of speech therapy.

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She's recovered enough so that
she's going to read at the--

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what's it called?

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Poets House.

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Poets House in New York
City with Maurya very soon.

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Yeah, and her new book.

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It's a pun on her aphasia,
but it's called Another Phase.

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So this one's for Eloise.

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"The Basics."

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"How the spoon
dips into the bowl.

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How it finds its
way to the lips.

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How lips open in time.

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How the body cries out.

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How it must.

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How it cannot.

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How we lift what we cannot lift.

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How generous, allowing help.

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How we don't want to need.

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How we all need.

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How touch heals.

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How love touch makes us human.

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How we forget what we know.

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How we learn again.

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How we forget what we wanted.

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How what we want evolves.

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How that mammoth we
were stalking got away.

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How this salmon, plump
with eggs, returns."

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