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If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.

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They defy gravity to feel tugged back.
The clatter, the mad slap of landing.

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Perhaps the great error is believing we're alone, That the others have come and gone—a momentary blip— When all along, space might be choc-full of traffic, Bursting at the seams with energy we neither feel Nor see, flush against us, living, dying, deciding.

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Time never stops, but does it end? And how many lives Before take-off, before we find ourselves Beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

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Tracy K. Smith

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Born: April 16, 1972 (age 53)
Bio: Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for a 2011 collection, Life on Mars.
Known for:
  1. Ordinary Light: A memoir (2015)
  2. The body's question (2003)
  3. Duende: Poems (2007)
  4. Life on Mars: Poems (2011)
  5. Life on Mars (2011)

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