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OK, I think two more and these
are for both for my beloved,

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the nonfiction writer
Melissa Feb-- no.

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[LAUGHTER]

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There's a lot of foolishness
happening in our house.

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We just like saying each
other's bio to be just silly.

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OK.

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"I did not mention the
moon, but it too showed out.

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What leads me to the
bull's red eye but longing?

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How better to calculate the
longing than with light?

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The light recently
arrived here was

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born alongside your mother, who
gives you respite tonight, 18

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hours away, an hour ahead.

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My binoculars bring
into focus the Hyades,

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Mars, the Seven Sisters.

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The sky crackles and
crusts with stars.

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I become dizzy.

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I lower the lenses
and close my eyes.

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So touched am I by the
sublimity of time and distance.

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Twin telescopes rendering
humble my small life.

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What sound can I
make in my reeling?

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What rubbing wing or
fluting spectacle?

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What bellow or snort will
reach you before its collapse?

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Know that I hum for you,
though you cannot hear it.

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I hum into the mouth of
this poem decades of light."

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