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So now some poems from Bestiary
or from The Renunciations.

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Yay. (LAUGHS) I told you
we're going to laugh,

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because it's a little
difficult. Yeah, I think so.

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So there's a sequence
in The Renunciations

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and the title is "Dear"
and then an em dash.

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So these are like epistolary
poems, letter poems,

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that are addressed to
an unnamed someone.

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"Dear--, we come from abundance.

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Each season bowed
with rain, but here

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is the earth, eager to flame.

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The air like salt,
thirsty, even for the water

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we carry in our skin.

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New wanderers in
this land, we do not

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know how to wait for water.

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Have never waited so long for
rain that every tree died,

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left to stand tinder.

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For now, I watch the shoulder
burn, drive through the smoke

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that blots the mountains and
holds the old yolk of sun.

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I know nothing of fire,
its reach, its spread.

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I know only that every
body makes its own ash,

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manages its own diminishing."

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