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So there are 39 of
these in a sequence.

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Having worked on them
carefully, hoping

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for echoes and
resonances, I decided

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I needed to do something very
different with the material.

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I didn't feel done with it.

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And so I read through
all of those sentences

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in those 39 poems,
ignoring the titles,

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and came to the conclusion
that there were nine themes

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among the 195 sentences.

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And I numbered all the
sentences from the first poem

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to the last.

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One through nine depending on
which theme they fell under.

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And then, in order,
I swept through

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and collected all the
sentences for the first theme,

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all the sentences
for the second,

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and so forth so that their
relationships were by chance.

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I did not try to
rearrange them to make

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sort of more sense out of the
meditations that occurred.

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I was just curious to
see what would happen.

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So the themes are
consciousness, on I and you,

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on setting, on death, on hope.

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I'm going to read two of these.

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They are varied length.

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A couple of them
are pretty long.

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I'm going to read two
of the shorter ones.

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And in the seven or
eight that I just read,

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you'll hear some of the
sentences coming back

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in new places.

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"On Nostalgia."

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"Instead, after
patient looking, a face

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emerges incompletely from
the worn surface of a fresco.

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Resurrection.

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A phenomenon of memory.

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Remember to show your work,
we were told when tested.

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A ladder.

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Each rung, the future of the
rung below until nothing.

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A face shivers on the
surface of a pan of water.

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The future that dwells on
us without our knowing.

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The scrim of facing memory.

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An eternity recollected.

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A face containing
many other faces.

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Is it no one?

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Blown sand.

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The data of memory.

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How often in a loved one's
face you awaken in ruin.

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An image taken from the past
to give what's temporary.

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This moment, a memorable face.

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On nostalgia."