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This poem has an epigraph
from The Wizard of Oz.

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When Dorothy says,
"But it wasn't a dream.

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It was a place.

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And you, and you, and
you, and you were there."

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"The other side of the house."

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"I walk out the kitchen door,
trailing extension cords

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into the open gaze
of the Southwest.

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The green surreptitious,
dusty like a trench coat.

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From the beautiful
lawnmower float

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curls of evaporated gasoline.

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The hinged acts of
the butterfly pauses.

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Where am I in the
stingy desert room,

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where in the blank
soul of the olive.

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I hear the sand
preparing to flee.

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Many still moments aligned
repair the thin split

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of an afternoon.

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Its orange fiction.

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The dim aggression of my
daughter on the terrace

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drawing her idea of a home.

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Somewhere I learned to walk out
of a thought and not snap back,

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the way railroad cars
telescope into a train.

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The sand flies so fast,
it leaves no shadow."

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