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This poem is called "It."

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Subtitle, "Reading Blake in
a Cowshed during a Typhoon

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on an Island in the
East China Sea."

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Cloud, cloud, cloud
hurls up and on over.

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Bison herds stampeding
for Shantung.

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Fists of rain flail half
down the length of the floor.

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Bamboo hills bend and regain.

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Fields follow the laws of waves.

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Puppy scuds in wet,
squats on the slat bed.

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On the edge of a spiral
centered 500 miles

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southwest, reading in English,
the way the words join,

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the weights, the warps.

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I know what it means.

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My language is home.

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Mind front's meeting
bite back at each other,

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whirl up a mother tongue.

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100-knot gusts dump palms
over somebody's morning cream.

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Cowshed skull, its windows
open, swallows and strains

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gulfs of wild-slung,
quivering ocean air.

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Breathe it.

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Taste it.

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How it feeds the brain.

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[TENTATIVE APPLAUSE]

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I'm not done yet.

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[LAUGHTER]