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I rather like the
permeability of this room

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because so many of
my poems are about,

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in one way or another, remaining
permeable to the suffering

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of the world.

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And every time I
hear a siren, it's

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either an ambulance or
a fire truck, probably.

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Somebody is having a bad
moment when we hear a siren.

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This poem Katherine referred
to in her introduction.

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"As If Hearing Heavy Furniture
Moved on the Floor Above Us."

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"As things grow rarer, they
enter the ranges of counting.

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Remain this many
Siberian tigers,

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that many African
elephants, three hundred

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red-legged egrets.

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We scrape from the world its
tilt and meander of wonder,

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as if eating the last
burned onions and carrots

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from a cast iron pan.

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Closing eyes to taste better
the char of ordinary sweetness."

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