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"Outside Less."

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I have been outside less, I have
taken to saying, in the days

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since my daughter was born,
passive, as though it were

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somebody else who bore her.

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And "bore her," I also
have taken to saying,

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as though she were a hole.

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I have witnessed a woodpecker
force, through the week,

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a gape in my
neighbor's barn side.

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I have watched as my daughter
knocks, woodpecker-like, her

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searching mouth into my breast.

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But I don't mean to say she
instills in me an absence.

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What nothing assembles
within me was already there.

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