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I thought I'd start
with a few poems

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from the book L'Epervier did
back in '77 I guess it is.

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This is a poem
entitled "Contagion."

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"I'm going to yield up my
life to you, across, say,

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the colors you eat--

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mauve, sienna.

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I'm going to take this list
back into me, inside me

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because I never made it.

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If I send the money home,
my sister resents me.

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If I send the
portrait after you,

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the yellow cools, the white
stone opens out into vigil.

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Having written you
from the boathouse,

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I have nowhere to go.

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I painted there near the water.

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I could have made
it with you, but I

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decided against your
name, summer contagion,

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the route I find
breathing in the snow.

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We do these lights.

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They are large, drawing water.

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High over the relief,
the open window

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says I was grabbed by privacy.

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Remember me by privacy.

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Anoint my sky, shame and snow.

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It had begun to snow.

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If I could begin
almost anything,

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it would be yellow light,
and shirts and smoke.

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