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This is a poem.

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It's a mutation of a translation
by a Palestinian poet

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by the name of--

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and actually
memoirist and critic,

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brilliant man who died
young from lung cancer.

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His name is Hussein Barghouthi.

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And it's called I Dreamed You.

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He actually studied comparative
literature in Seattle,

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and wrote a wonderful memoir
called Blue Light in Arabic.

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And I don't think it has been
translated in English yet.

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But it'll be fascinating
if that happens.

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"I dreamed you a shrine of two,
one who's visited for a vow,

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and one who floats on water
as glow, whether a visitor

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or visited.

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Love astounds me as if
you were some higher

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form of what I've lost
and then returns to me

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when the curtains lifted.

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I climb your hands.

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My body falls as glass.

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My soul rises as fragrance.

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Some climbing is ascension.

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Some is collapse.

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I dreamed you.

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You fire up the Earth
without catalyst.

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Some eyes are mirrors and
some mirrors are dust."

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