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Working on these poems for
a year or a year and a half

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made me want to work in a
manner of brokenness, of gaps,

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of synapse.

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And that became the form
of most of the poems

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that are in remanence.

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I decided I would write a whole
series of five sentence prose

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poems, that the sentences
would be independent.

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Though I hoped, and I
worked that they would have

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resonances among them,
especially in relation

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to titles.

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So titles are real
important in this one.

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And in fact, I thought about
having a screen with the titles

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up to remind.

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I read from this for the first
time a couple of months ago.

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And I repeated the titles at
the end since the poems travel

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among parts, distances, that
can maybe leave you confused.

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So I'm going to repeat the
title at the end the way

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I did that night, which most
of my friends said they thought

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worked well.

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Let me read a few of these
five sentence prose poems.

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"Foreboding."

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"Having said it, he watched
it, singed and twisting

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a slip of smoke dissolving in
candlelight above the table.

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The spaciousness inside
the room of a moment.

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Among the luxuries a safe life
affords imagining the worst.

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The evidence spectral admitted
before the mind's tribunal.

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A tremor registers in the legs
an animal underground having

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shaken itself upon waking."

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"Foreboding."