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And here's-- this is a sonnet I
wrote when I first found out I

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was pregnant.

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And it's the first in a sequence
from my daughter, Miranda.

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Miranda Lee Reality
Torn is her full name.

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And Miranda meets Wonder,
so this section of the book

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is called The Wondrous Field.

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This is called "Secret Sonnet."

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Egg moon and worm moon
conjoin to tell me

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laughingly not to be
alarmed by this new Velcro.

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Two turkey buzzards in
black cross the state line

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while Quan Yin leans,
a plum time to blossom.

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The signs sigh.

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When we squeeze each
other, light comes out.

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Next, a dust devil in the road
follows a glossy pheasant.

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Mini twin violets come out
of my ninth month's midnight.

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Pandora Leon's shuttle
sings and knits,

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sewing Hiddenite biscuits
I now have at the ready.

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Belmont city playboys and girls,
me and my arrow's, Johnny Jump

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Ups, hear me all now.

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June's spring knees are
busting out all over.

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