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First of all, you'll
have to tell me

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whether you can hear me.

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This is sort of an odd rig,
I've got a high chair here

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that I'm sitting in.

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Can you hear me?

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Is it OK?

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Good.

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I'm going to read first,
a sequence of poems

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and then a short story.

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Some of you may have heard some
of the sequence at the awards

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reading last spring.

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But it's no longer
now, it's finished now.

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The general title
of it is "Moving Out

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of the Attic,"
which is an oblique

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reference to Mrs. Rochester
in Jane Eyre, the madwoman

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in the attic.

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And it consists of eight
poems, each of which

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has a title of its own.

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"Moving Out of the Attic."

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One.

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"Metamorph."

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"In the dark, from a dream
of rain black and new green,

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she wakes to the
touch of a stranger.

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In the arms of a stranger
who holds her too hard.

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Bone of his shoulder, bruising
the bone of her cheek.

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Snared, stilled in the cave
of black quilt of heat.

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She lies, the bruise
spreading deep,

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becomes stranger to herself.

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A woman who breathes in dream.

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The old self loosed,
rising against the dark,

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chilled and bitter as rain.

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Knows that she has been loved
by a man who loved her only

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in sleep.

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Dreaming her someone else.

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