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Now, I'm going to read one
lyric poem from my first book,

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The Year of Blue Water.

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And then the rest of the book
is a sequence of prose poems.

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So I won't pause for
titles or anything.

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You'll just get a slightly
more dramatic pause

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in between sections.

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"Dream diary.

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You're awake, then
you are standing,

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then the last thing
that you dreamed

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will unfold its field of memory.

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What you touch
will come to life,

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a whole room sprung in the
backwards words of people

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on talking to you.

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Walking reversed
with such confidence

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until you reach another room.

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There stands this person
who is also a talisman.

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In the dream, it doesn't
matter when they loved you.

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In the dream when you
talk, the butterflies

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are orange and then blue.

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And together, you lead
the rabble to the square

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where you touch this
person and then leave them.

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And on cue, a flock
of pigeons will soon

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want nothing but
to return to you.

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And on cue, the cedars
become green and then stone.

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This person unmaking
love from you

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and placing the pieces
elsewhere again on Earth

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until before that,
until the somewhere else

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before you agreed to move.

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Then you are language
too, backwards words

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unstuck to the dream as
the dream began to happen.

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And the ghosts
inside the many rooms

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rustle nude inside
the blue water.

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And the ghosts
inside the many rooms

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illuminate the many walls."

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