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This is a poem called
"What the Music Wants,"

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and it's dedicated to the
memory of George Oppen.

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"What the music wants
is pod and tentacle.

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The thing wiggling, wild
as washed hair, spread.)

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Is ourselves inserted within
our own rhythms, wrapt, voluted,

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that miracle of
measure ascendant.

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To stand, that there's
somewhere to stand.

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Marble over moorings,
the scaffolds

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now as if vanished and the
steps, the floors: spoken forth.

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To stand, stand
there within sound

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alone, that miracle is what
the waters comb, and the bells,

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beating, count.

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Faint now over the waves
in a garland of bells.

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Is somewhere and wrapt in the
bulb of its voices, are buoyant,

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among."

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