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When did I begin?

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I forgot to look at the camera.

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10 minutes, great.

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OK.

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This next poem is called
"An Enso for Larry Levis".

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An enso is simply a
telegraphic representation--

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you've seen them, what is
it, Lucent has an enso.

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You know those-- it's
a circle that a monk,

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who has realized some deep--

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that has had some
deep realization,

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will often do one of these
as an expression of that,

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and write a poem
to accompany it.

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And so this poem is "An
Enso for Larry Levis".

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The moon died.

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An odor of urine
and bruised parsley

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that attaches to the
rims of old jam jars.

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Everything then
becomes a setback.

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Compliments often
tucked together.

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The whiteboard on which we
used to write dispatches

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is about to recall
a fallen center.

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Our lives before this moment
required a bit of acting,

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the future selves standing
alongside the necessary past

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like approving parents.

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But behind them both, the
night sky or a blue tacky dawn

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emerges, embraces the
perfect mallet of scent,

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similar to the tincture you
prepared for weeds, weeds that

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grow the length
of all relations,

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mimicking a doorway where
you watch the coming night.

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Equal inside and
outside, you are

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unable to step through
what's not next.

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The white bib of a
certain speckled bird

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that lives only in your trees.

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We're speaking of an event
that's an instruction.

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If named, a faint
corruption of anticipation

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called baby finds the tit.

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And who doesn't wish.

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