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April 20, 2013

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The first time I remember reading poetry was at my grandfather's cabin. There were old books all over the place, including several in the room my siblings & I slept in when we stayed there. I used to stay up late reading a few pages of each, never a whole book, until I fell asleep in a pile of pages. I don't remember the poets whose work was kept in that room, but I remember being fascinated by the shape of poetry on the page.

When I was very little and afraid of thunderstorms, my mother would tell me to keep reciting the first line of the poem "Achamillai Achamillai" (I have no fear, I have no fear) by the Tamil poet Subramania Bharati. I never learnt the poem in its entirety; but that refrain remains with me to this day.

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I left it
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of coming back
ten hours later
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of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
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