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Well, this might--

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I can't just cut the
poem in half, so--

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this one's called
"Hello, the Roses."

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"My soul radially whorls
out to the edges of my body,

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according to the same
laws by which stars shine,

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communicating with
my body by emanation.

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It is a source of sentience
for the visible and invisible,

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etheric, and including
unexpressed feelings of others

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beyond what is
physically plausible.

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When you see her, you feel the
impact of what visual can mean.

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An invisible part comes
through of deep pink or a color

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I see clairvoyantly.

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This felt sense
of seeing the rose

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extends because light
in the DNA of my cells

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receives light frequencies
of the flower as a hologram.

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An entire rose,
petals in moving air,

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emotion of perfume
records as a sphere,

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so when I recall the emotion,
I touch dimensionality.

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From a small bud emerges
a tight-wound bundle

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of baby skin coral petals,
held in a perfect half globe,

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as if by cupped hands.

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Then, petals are innumerable,
loose, double, sumptuous,

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unified.

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I look through parted
fingers to soften

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my gaze and slow light shining
off the object is filtered.

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Then with feeling, I look
at swift color there.

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It's swiftness yet seems still
as noon light because my seeing

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travels at the same speed.

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I make a reciprocal balance
between light falling on

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to the back of my
eye, to optic nerve,

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to pineal gland, a
radiant stepping down

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of light into matter and
awareness of my future self

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opening out from this sight.

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The moment extends
into time passing

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as sense impression of a rose,
including new joys, where

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imagined roses, roses I haven't
yet seen or seen in books,

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record as my experience.

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Then, experience is revelation
because plants and people have

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in their cells
particles of light that

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can become coherent, that
radiate out physically and also

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with the creativity of
metaphor as in a beam

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of light
holographically, that is,

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by intuition, in which I inhale
the perfume of the bourbon

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rose, then try to separate
what is scent, sense,

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and what you call memory.

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What is emotion?

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Where in a dialogue,
like touching,

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is it so vibratory
and so absorbant

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of my attention and longing with
impressions like fingerprints

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all over.

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I'm saying physical perception
is the data of my embodiment,

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whereas for the rose,
scarlet itself is matter.

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The rose communicates
instantly with the woman

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by sight, collapsing
its boundaries,

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and the woman widens
her boundaries.

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Her rate of perception slows
down because of its complexity.

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There is a feeling
of touching and being

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touched, the shadings of color
she can sense from touch.

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There's an affinity between
awareness and blossom.

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The rose symbolizes the
light of this self-affinity.

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I come to visit drooping
white cabbage roses at dusk.

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That corner of the garden
glows with a quality of light

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I might see when light
shines through mist

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or in early morning
reflects off water.

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I stand quietly and
allow this quality

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to permeate the air around me.

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Here, with a white rose,
color is clairsentient,

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this color in the process
of being expressed,

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like seeing Venus in the day."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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