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This is a poem out of
a six-part sequence

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which was entitled
"Third Person."

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"Each night I am insistent
about this rain that

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falls over a black marriage.

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What has referred to this?

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Like a torch, its vague
insides being put out by water.

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After the indifferent road,

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the houses far
back, their insides

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flashing briefly like
oars in sunlight.

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The fingers of a visitor wrapped
around the throat of a lamp

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and said, this is mine.

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And what was left was
hard down on the stone.

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The lamp, brawn, brawn
being placed on the table.

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I invent the one night stand,
the rain freezing on roofs,

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the pleasing furniture
of Iowa City."

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