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Thank you so much for
being here this evening.

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And thank you, Mark.

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That was so generous.

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And it's been a real privilege
to have these past two

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days with Mark Wunderlich.

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If you don't know his
poetry, you should.

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It's exquisite.

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And it's a great privilege
to be able to read

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before you this evening.

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I have never read
before in Tucson.

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So I'm nervous, and I'm aware
of the tradition that is here.

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And I appreciate being
part of this reading

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series of the Poetry Center.

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It was wonderful yesterday being
a part of Janice Dewey's class.

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And working with the students,
we only had a couple of hours.

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But it was a glimpse into what
is happening here in Tucson

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literarily in the minds
and souls of those of you

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who live here.

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And it was deeply moving to me.

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And thank you for
being here again.

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The Poetry Center has such
a distinguished history

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in this entire country
preserving the spirit of poetry.

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Beginning with the
vision love and care

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of Ruth Stephan, and then Lois
Shelton, and Dick for 20 years.

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Alice-- Alison Deming,
and now Mark Wunderlich.

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This extraordinary library
of sheer inspiration.

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Don't you love that
building, that cottage?

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It feels so vulnerable.

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So I will always be lighting
candles on your behalf.

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Last night, I stayed up
reading May Swenson's poetry.

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It was so wonderful
because there's

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all these books on the shelves.

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And I just pulled
out one of hers.

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And I would love to
share it with you.

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Love is a rain of diamonds
in the mind, the soul's

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fruit sliced into a dark spring
loosed at the lips of light.

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Under Earth waters
unlocked from their lurking

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to sparkle in a crevice
parted by the sun.

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A temple, not of stone, but
cloud beyond the heart's roar

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and all violence outside
the anvil stunned domain,

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unfrenzied space.

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Between the grains of
change, blue permanence.

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One short step to
the good ground.

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The bite into bread again.

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May Swenson.

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To take nothing for granted.

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This is what the
Poetry Center inspires.

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Please know how
much I love Tucson;

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that may sound strange to you.

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But I feel like they're such
a community of friends here.

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And I appreciate them
being here tonight.

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The women from the
Wildlife Damage Review.

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Brave and committed souls.

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Nancy Zierenberg, Julie and
Marian, Clarke, Abby, Lisa

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Peacock.

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Sisters.

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Last night at dinner, they were
saying that this is the 65th

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birthday of the
animal damage control.

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A good time to retire.

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And I think about Rod Mont
of the wildlife lands project

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remapping, rethinking
this continent.

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I think it's just a hint of the
grassroots power that is here

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in this part of the country.

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I think his friends and
family from Jackson Hole,

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Wyoming who are here.

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Jack Turner, Susan Stone, John
and Georgie Morgan, Jake Kittle.

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Nothing means more than
to know you have a clan

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and to be part of that.

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Linda Harrison, Bonnie Colby.

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My neighbors Curtis
and Diane Nelson,

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Curtis [INAUDIBLE] Hensley.

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I don't mean to name names.

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But it just means
so much, don't you

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think, when we're
all here together?

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And the mentors that I feel
most powerfully from Tucson.

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Dick Shelton.

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I carry lines from his
poems with me as a mantra.

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And I think his poem
Requiem for Sonora

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is one of the most
powerful poems that

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has ever been written.

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Simon Ortiz, Scott Momaday,
and Chuck Bowden, Nancy Mairs.

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Their generous spirit, their
honesty, certainly Ed Abbey.

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He remains a dance
upon the desert.

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To take nothing for granted.

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And tonight, I would
like to introduce you

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to my father, John Tempest.

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And it's so wonderful
having him with me.

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I don't mean to embarrass
you, but we just spend.

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I don't know if
anything that means

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more when you're able to
be friends, and peers,

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with your own parents.

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And today, we hiked
up Romero Canyon.

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It was so gorgeous.

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As you well know, the
saguaros, the area.

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And I think we heard
one of the little pygmy

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owls down by the wash there.

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It was worth the trip here.

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How could they live anywhere,
but this beloved American West?

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