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I'm going to read three more
poems, two medium length ones

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and one slightly longer one.

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"What Is Called Thinking."

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"When I surprised the deer,
the wind was against me.

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So I was given a length
of naive time, green time,

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free to be the sole witness.

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Her blinking in and out of the
one ray of light sorting tufts.

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Me in the Walkman were
the self-reflexive strings

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of the 18th century
do not die down.

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I stood there fast, wanted
the arabesques of string,

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the nervousness to
brand themselves

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hard onto her intangible pelt,
watch the skin ripple to rid

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itself of flies, and the ray
lacerate the broad soft back

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to its infinite pleasure.

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And her take a
short step through.

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Up in the air, in the
transparent, unmoving frenzy,

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the mind, oars beat
softly in time.

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A head sank into a gutter.

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Blood started out.

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The strings interpreted.

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The wind stayed against me.

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Mother bent to light
the candles, flight

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of a blue jay like
a struck match.

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Then twenty abreast, click.

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Then twenty abreast
marching through the city.

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And all along, the
strings, the strings, body

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winged, trying to make sure
it's a story after all.

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Barehanded, they grip the oars.

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The lower limb of
the aspen shakes.

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She looks up.

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It is a she.

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And there is the angel
sitting on the limb now.

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There is the angel
laughing, sharpening blades.

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There is the angel.

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Its robes, the mistakes,
slapping the taller grasses.

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It's sharpening the
good ideas forwards,

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forwards, forwards, forwards.

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She goes back to feeding.

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The angel is on her.

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He is grinning and slicing
the air all around him.

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He is testing the blade.

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The air is blue.

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When I look again, it's an
AK-47, then it's a saber.

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Look, it's a spinning
wheel, a printing press.

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No, it's a run of celluloid
in his right hand.

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He's waving it.

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It's 78 frames of
some story, then

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it's the simple blade again.

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How can the deer
let him ride her?

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The click is my tape
going into reverse play.

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The oboe, the thinking it's
for something, that sadness,

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sluffing over the
God, tree deer blade.

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Is it going to braid
them up right this time?

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The good elegy for
being so sorry.

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If I could whip her
with the strings,

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if I could stab her with
the rising sound of violins,

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but the oars continue above us.

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We are so small.

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And the angel is floating above.

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And the angel is knifing itself
to make the laughter flow.

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Although it's breeze-rustle
in the honeyed aspen,

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over and over, the long blade
going into the windy robes,

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sometimes crossing
through, sometimes

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staying inside a while.

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Sometimes, straight through
the throat, then up the nose.

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His folate woundedness laughing,
lacerating the stillness

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with the silent laughter.

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As the breeze picks
up down to the left,

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and she looks up peering out.

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And the wind begins
to change her way.

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The angel wild now
on the grasses.

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The tree above her wholly hung
with knives, hundreds clacking.

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Until I want them all to
fall on her at once, dozens

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into the lowered
neck, the saddle,

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the wind changing
round altogether now.

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Until he gives it to me,
the good angel, since I

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thought of it.

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And she turns to me here now.

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And all the blades fall
suddenly into all parts of me,

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giving me my human shape.

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History.

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A dress rustles on
the spiral staircase.

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I lay my forehead into
the silver hands."

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[APPLAUSE]

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