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There's kind of an
"Ars Poetica" in here.

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I think I'll just read it.

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It's not that long.

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It's a whole another series
part of the underneath series.

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This is called
"Underneath (Libation)."

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The Oresteia, Agamemnon--

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The whole cast of characters
appear in this book.

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And so it really is a sequence.

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And it's hard to
read outside of it.

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But this one some of
the politics of the book

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will be missing unless I read.

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I actually should read
a different one though

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because there's a
broadside outside.

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And I should read the
poem that you so kindly

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made a beautiful print for me.

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It's a sexy poem.

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It's in a series of haiku.

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"Two Days."

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Full moon lays his
hand onto her throat,

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into his mouth
takes her whole ear.

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Noon, this pen hovers
over this empty page.

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One is free to forget.

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Noon, the gate
fills to its edges

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with the two sides of opening.

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Move.

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Noon.

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Regardless of the gate,
buds open all around,

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stare at each other.

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Noon, evaporation
is taking place.

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Full moon, your body
before me a nameless hill.

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Full moon: seeing being seen.

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The cold lies in
us all night long,

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in one spot most especially.

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I am not seeking altitude.

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Noon: we push until,
like a third party,

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matter rages between us.

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Noon: pushes us into the
midst to where spring stops.

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Noon: pushes us to
where a crown emerges

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and begins to lower all round
our bodies, tiny rips of buds.

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Noon: then even the buds
push out into this emptiness.

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Noon: the only heaven
plays and leaps.

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Dusk, with its downslope,
a bride, and one

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above her all shivering of mind.

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Late dusk: a communication
between what exists

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and what is visible.

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That shore.

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Who knows what can be said.

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Full moon, lays his hand onto
her throat, into his mouth

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takes her whole ear.

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