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Well, thank you for that
wonderful introduction

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and for being my ideal reader.

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I am really excited to
share this book with you.

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I'm really excited to be here.

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So, thank you, Hannah, and
everybody at the Poetry Center.

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And thank you, Cynthia.

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It's just a real
honor and a privilege

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to read alongside you tonight.

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So, yeah.

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I'm going to I'm going to
share some poems from this book

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and then a couple of
new poems as well.

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I'll start at the beginning.

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"Dream a narrowing.

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Dream a clenched fist, a hollow.

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Dream blood now.

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Dream bones.

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Now dream flesh for blood.

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And flesh for bones and
veins for blood to travel.

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But each dreamed thing
become that thing.

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Let each grow inside you.

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Let each split you into
minute unfathomable parts,

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a great mystery for
10,000 future generations

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slowly to unravel.

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Dream lungs now.

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Dream the very first breath.

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Dream hands, dream eyes.

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Now dream sight for eyes,
then hit it like a wall.

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Let there be no way
around it this time.

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That I see sight and
know it is a wall.

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Now dream is small hole in the
wall that the eyes have made.

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Dream the hole was the door
that the hands could open."

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