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I'll just read four new poems.

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This is titled "From the
Reformation Journal."

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A lot of these poems
have gaps in them,

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which I'll just
try to somehow read

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into the timing of the poem.

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This one happens to have a
lot of asterisks as well.

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There is one line quoted
from Emily Dickinson.

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And two lines
quoted from Ekelof.

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The wisdom I have
heretofore trusted

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was cowardice, the leaper.

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I am not lying.

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There is no lying in me.

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I surrender myself like the
sinking ship, a burning wreck

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from which the depths
will get theirs

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when the heights
have gotten theirs.

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My throat is an open grave.

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I hide my face.

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I have reduced all to lowercase.

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I have crossed out passages.

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I have severely
trimmed and cleared.

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Locations are omitted.

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Uncertain readings
are inserted silently.

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Abbreviations silently expanded.

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A He referring to God may
be capitalized or not,

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is crying now.

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Show me is crying now.

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What's wrong?

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In a strange tree of atoms
of too few more no wonder.

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Give me the glassy ripeness.

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Give me the glassy
ripeness in failure.

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Give me the atom
laying its question

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at the bottom of nature.

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Send word.

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Clear fields.

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Make formal event.

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Walk.

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Turn back.

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Reduce all to lower
case, have reduced all.

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Cross out passages,
have inserted silently.

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Is there a name for
glassy ripeness.

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In failure born and raised.

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And you go back.

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Need more.

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Having lived it,
leaves it possible.

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Fear, lamentation,
shame, ruin, believe me.

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Explain given to.

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Explain born of.

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Absence is odious to God.

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I'm asking unseen, unseen
the treasure on perceived.

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Unless you compare the
treasure may be lost.

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Oh, my beloved.

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I'm asking more
atoms, more days,

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the noise of the sparrows
of the universals.

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Yet colder here now
than in the atom.

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Still there at the
bottom of nature

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that we be founded on infinite
smallness, which occasions

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in corruption, or immortality.

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In corruption because already
as little as it can be.

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Escape square, wasted square,
safety square, hopeless square.

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To all, accept anguish.

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The mind soon adjusts.

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Have reduced, have trimmed,
have cleared, have omitted,

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have abbreviations silently
expanded to what avail.

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Explain, asks to be followed.

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Explain remains to be seen.

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