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This poem was reproduced.

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It's a brand new poem from
"Oceanic," my next collection.

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And it's reproduced as
a broadside for the--

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I think it was from
the Whitman Circle.

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Is that right?

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So I also just got to
see that in person.

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I'm so excited for that.

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It's beautiful.

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Thank you.

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I love letterpress.

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And this is called
"Naming the Heartbeats."

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I have become the person
who says "darling,"

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who says "sugar pie," "honey
bunch," "snuggle bear,"

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and that's just for my children.

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What I call my husband
is unprintable.

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You're welcome.

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I am his sweetheart
and finally, finally I

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answer to his call
and his alone.

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Animals are named
for people, places,

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or perhaps a little Latin.

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Plants invite names for
colors or plant parts.

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When you get a group
of heartbeats together,

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you get names that call out into
the evening's first radiance

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of planets, a quiver of cobras,
a maelstrom of salamanders,

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and an audience of squid, or
an ostentation of peacocks.

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But what is it called
when creatures on earth

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curl and sleep, when
shadows of moons

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we don't yet know
brush across our faces?

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And what is the name for the
movement we make when we wake,

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swiping hand, or claw,
or wing across our faces,

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like trying to remember
a path or a river

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we've only visited
just in our dreams.

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