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The journey toward home has its
obstacles and weigh stations.

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Because time is fluid and
consequently the self is fluid.

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Identity is fluid, and
appears in different forms.

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So along the way
there are poems where

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the house takes different
forms, and where

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the self takes different forms.

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So this is another
poem from that series.

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It's called "House Double."

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"The night is uplifted
with all you can see.

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Of a neighbor's bedroom
on its light tray.

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Some branch of
mulberry interferes

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like the minds vestigial tail.

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Though the blue drapes
are parted, and drawers

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are shining like steps.

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Though the blurred
picture on the far wall

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could be a boat or a face.

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You make out a lion
dressed in human clothes.

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When you were a child and
first entered that room

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where they were sleeping.

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It's enormous
mirror cave keeping

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the mysterious cluster of keys
safe in the region of duality.

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Your heart was uncomfortable as
your eyes in the den of being.

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Their ribs were mountains in
the sky of your enchanted egg.

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Tonight, the father first
walks into the jewel

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and hangs a shadow like a skin.

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In the closets, morpho mania.

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Then the mother's arm
with just its beak

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draws the blue folds across
the next imagination.

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With a negative
of space, abides.

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Like a future that
entered you long ago

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and changed itself in you.

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Keeping the primal
order of things,

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with your earliest
thought not to wake them."