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I'm going to end with a
poem called "Spirit City."

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It's the first poem I wrote
after my daughter was born.

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"Spirit City"--
it's in four parts.

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"Emphasizing not only the ground
upon which her movement builds,

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but matter it forms.

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The idea of movement
is a material also,

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like the transparency of
light above a blue ridge,

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being apricot.

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Though the ridge is not the
blue color of air on it.

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This light is like a space
that's a passage in time.

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There's movement when
the space changes.

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And in its state of
being, what it changed to.

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The content of your focus
on it, like an image,

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can start suddenly.

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The way my eye makes the
horizon, my state of mind

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is making the state
of being of the space.

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The state of mind is
like touching an object

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by watching it against
graduated lines in a reflection.

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The ridge grows bluer.

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Instead of trying
to know a change

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from patches of contacts.

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The mystery of a color can
diminish without the ridge

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becoming opaque.

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Every other moment
of an experience

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must push to extravagance,
or sphericity, of horizon

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not magnitude.

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I can't specify the act
of description by her.

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The words are like a train
station, where a lot of lines

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cross.

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And having a person vibrates,
showing which line will move.

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The time of having her
becomes an absorptive surface

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instead of when the
person was alive.

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There was an inseparable light
of the event for each place,

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like a birthplace.

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And the horizon represents
a passage in time and light.

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A one-way membrane, she thinks
is the edge of a shadow,

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like a medical
procedure into her body.

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Then, color crosses
back from a petal.

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I can correlate my
sensation of reddening

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with changes in the sky.

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I can't graph my sense of this
position of my body, which

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has no intensity,
but is more like time

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on either side of you.

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Each point of the space
is a center of a sphere,

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as if your eyes were a
point, as if a person being

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were like hearing.

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Her time is a center of
increasing disorder--

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an arrow in the space.

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It is finite in extent,
yet has no edges--

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like the surface of the Earth.

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On the horizon, an apricot
seam is not the content

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of a concept of you.

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Knowing this light
is not a content.

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But seeing it is a content
of my consciousness.

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If it's an image, it
can have content that

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is telling something to me.

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Or if you were telling the
content of your dream."

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Here's the last part.

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"The image of an apricot
band of light in my memory

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does not block out the
impression of this band now.

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I can see your shoes on red
dirt that covers blue hills.

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And the pulsating
band turned redder.

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I define red by
pointing to dirt, not

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like the shadow of a petal.

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A place in time, not a thing
with closeness or distance.

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As if I were walking instead
of looking or remembering.

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The use I speak of
seeing is a form of use.

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Light releases events
and things away

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from the thing to the culture
of the person or presence,

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as if a pivot between
the necessity of relation

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among human beings called
agreement in the form of life,

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and the lack of this
necessity between time

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and a collapsed star."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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