<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="detail-bd" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="user-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="user-content-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="poem" data-view="ContentView" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; position: relative;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit;" class="">You are cordially invited to join us for a rare Sonoma County reading by poet Dana Levin</span></div><div style="font-size: 18px; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto;" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""> <img apple-inline="yes" id="BC992A00-9978-43D0-87FE-19572B89DCCB" height="136" width="208" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:7C8FA7CF-FC72-4BD7-B629-673A3666BB24" class=""></div></div></span><div style="font-size: 18px; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 18px; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto;" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class="">Sunday, February 26 at 2:00 PM<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">at the home of Rebecca Evert in Sebastopol</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></span><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="font-size: 18px; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto;" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="">Seating is limited. For the address and to reserve a seat, please e-mail Rebecca at <a href="mailto:revert@sonic.net" class="">revert@sonic.net</a><b class="">. </b></span></div></div><div class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 16px;"><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><div class="sqs-block-html sqs-block html-block" data-block-type="2" id="block-a549e040e65517bb1b14" style="position: relative; height: auto; padding: 0px 17px 17px; outline: none; box-shadow: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease-in-out; clear: none; color: rgb(38, 51, 51); orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none; cursor: auto;"><p class="" style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em;"><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="">Dana Levin’s new book of poetry is <em class="">Banana Palace</em> (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Her first book, <em class="">In the Surgical Theatre,</em> was chosen by Louise Glück for the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. <a href="http://www.danalevinpoet.com/" class="">http://www.danalevinpoet.com</a></span></p><p class="" style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em;"><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="">Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, <em class="">Wedding Day</em>, in 2005, and in 2011 <em class="">Sky Burial</em>, which <em class="">The New Yorker</em> called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” <em class="">Sky Burial</em> was noted for 2011 year-end honors by <em class="">The New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, Coldfront</em>, and <em class="">Library Journal</em>.</span></p><p class="" style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em;"><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="">Levin’s poetry and essays have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including <em class="">Best American Poetry 2015, The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, The American Poetry Review, Poetry</em>, and <em class="">The Paris Review</em>. Her fellowships and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, as well as the Rona Jaffe, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. </span></p><div class="" style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="">A teacher of poetry for over twenty years, Levin has served as the Russo Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico (2009–2011), as well as Faculty and Chair of the Creative Writing and Literature Department at College of Santa Fe (1998–2009) and Santa Fe University of Art and Design (2011–2015). She currently serves each Fall as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis.</span></div></div></div><div class="button-block sqs-block sqs-block-button" data-block-type="53" id="block-yui_3_17_2_38_1474928675101_6963" style="position: relative; height: auto; padding: 17px; outline: none; box-shadow: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: box-shadow 0.2s ease-in-out; clear: both; color: rgb(38, 51, 51); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="sqs-block-content"></div></div></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><div class="detail-hd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="hdg hdg_1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.5rem; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.231;">The Living Teaching</span><h2 class="isVisuallyHidden" style="margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px; height: 1px; position: absolute; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;">Related Poem Content Details</h2></div><div class="detail-byline" style="margin: 6px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></div><div class="detail-bd" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="user-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="user-content-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="poem" data-view="ContentView" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">You wanted to be a butcher<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">but they made you be a lawyer.<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">You brought home presents<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">when it was nobody’s birthday.<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">Smashed platters of meat<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">she cut against the grain.<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">Were a kind <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">of portable shrine — <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">I was supposed to cultivate a field of bliss,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">then return to my ordinary mind.</div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">You burned the files<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">and moved the office.<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">Made your children fear<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">a different school.<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">Liked your butter hard<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">and your candy frozen.<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">Were a kind<div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">of diamond drill, drilling a hole</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">right through my skull — <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">quality sleep, late November.</div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">What did it mean, “field of bliss” — <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">A sky alive “with your greatest mentor” — <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">I wore your shoes, big as boats,<div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">flopped through the house — </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">while you made garlic eggs with garlic salt, what<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">“represents the living teaching” — </div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">Sausages on toasted rye with a pickle, <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">and a smother of cheese, and <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">frosting<div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">right out of the can without the cake — </div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">You ruled<div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">with a knife in one hand and a fork in the other, you raged</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">at my stony mother, while I banged <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">from my high chair, waving</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">the bloodied bone <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">of something slaughtered — I was</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">a butcher’s daughter.</div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;">So all hail to me — <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -1em;"><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Os Gurges</em>, Vortex Mouth, I gap my craw</div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and the bakeries of the cities fall, I <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">stomp the docks — spew out a bullet stream</div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">of oyster shells, I’ll<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">drain the seas — the silos</div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">on every farm, the rice<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">from the paddy fields, the fruit</div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">from all the orchard trees, and then I’ll<br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">eat the trees — <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ll eat with money and I’ll eat</div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">with my teeth until the rocks <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and the mountains curl</div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and my blood sings — <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m such a good girl <br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-indent: -1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to eat the world.</div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Dana Levin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><span style="font-size: 18px; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>