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And I'm living with a woman now.

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My partner is from
Southern India,

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and her name is Ashwini Bhat.

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And thinking of
immigration right now,

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there's more human
migration across borders,

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across countries, than
in all of human history.

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And also thinking about
the sea as a constant

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immigrant to the shore.

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"Immigrant Sea."

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"Aroused by her
inaccessibility, he

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aches for more of her
life to live inside him.

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Watching the breakers,
standing so close

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he can feel heat coming
off her wet scalp.

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What is his relation to
this person before him,

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so familiar and foreign?

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The way he searches out her
face, he searches out himself.

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Gusts thrash crests of swell,
spring grasses twirl circles

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in the sand where they
stand without speaking.

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She wants him to know
it's all charged,

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even grass positive, pollen
negative, so when grass waves,

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it sweeps the air for pollen.

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He feels electricity
all around as

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though the wild drama
of the coming storm

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were already aware of them,
foreigners on this shore.

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Little sapphire-blue
flowers speckle the dunes.

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He wonders if he has
let himself flatten out

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into a depthless sheet,
like escalator stairs,

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whether in the end he'll
disappear underground

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without the smallest
lurch of resistance.

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But when her lavish
face turns toward him

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beaming, the corners
of her eyes wind-wet,

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he yields to that excess,
he reappears to himself."

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