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Hello.

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I'm so honored to be
here, and to be here

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with old friends
and new friends,

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and to be here with my very
dear friend, Catherine.

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It's a real honor
and a wonder to me

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that I'm here and staying in
the wonderful poet's house.

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So thank you very, very
much for having us here.

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I'm going to read a couple
poems from this most

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recent book, Little Boat.

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The first one I'm going to read
a few from the last sequence

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in the book.

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The first one, the sequence
itself is called "Maria

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Gravida, Mary Expectant".

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Maria Gravida.

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Then the gold mother
began her touching me

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with her long, brown
face and hands.

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She tickled me and told
me I was beautiful.

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She held me in the
ikon, and we gazed.

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We had a pretty goldfish.

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Death, salvation.

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Love was strong as death.

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Peacocks walked by,
blue immortality.

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Finches played in
black branches, souls

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around the cross.

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It was death in life.

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Our gold earth gravida.

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Not a casket but a
dark room for our love.

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The herma wrought of
silver gilded in fire.

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Gold mother around me,
inside me, gravida.

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