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- So I've just got one more.

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I want to thank all of
you again for listening.

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And thanks to Jos for
being here to read with me.

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This last one is
one of the poems

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that I wrote during
this residency, which

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I am very grateful for.

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It's the first poem I've ever
written about my hearing loss.

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And to elaborate, I
have a particular type

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of hearing loss called middle
frequency hearing loss.

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So I can hear very
low pitched sounds

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and I can hear very
high pitched sounds,

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but I have trouble hearing
the sounds in the middle.

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And the human voice is a
middle frequency sound.

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This is called "Elegy for the
Frequencies Heard and Unheard."

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Thanks again.

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I've been pollinated by
silence since I was a child.

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My insulated dawdling
uninterrupted

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save a perch sparrow's whistle,
or the thrashing of a lemon

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in the garbage disposal.

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The doctor said the
human voice, light rain,

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unwrapping a gift, the
sound of the paper tearing,

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every dream I've
ever had is humming,

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humming that even as it
swells its pitch disappears.

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Each night, bees wring
patient drops of honey

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into the combs of my ears.

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Someday soon I'll no longer hear
anything but this sweetness.

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Thanks.