"To The Young Woman Who Tore..." genre: Poetry
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	This MP3 contains a poem that deals with a young woman's sexual awakening--and it also contains a brief introduction of the real-life events that inspired Amy to write it.
	CD: Landscapes of Our Leaving Credits: Published in Hayden's Ferry Review #22 (Spring/Summer 1998)
	Lyrics TO THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO TORE "INSOMNIA" FROM ELIZABETH BISHOP'S COMPLETE BOOK OF POEMS _____________________________________________ Last night, I dreamed you couldn't sleep because that same moon, trapped fifty years ago in Bishop's bureau mirror, was shining too brightly through your own bedroom window. Tired from travelling two hundred thousand miles, the pale sphere rested in the dark stains and shadows of your dresser's veneer--and wavered there, like a mirage, tempting you to brush fingers along the gray hollows marking its surface. You reached forward, then paused, as if knowing the moment you touched only smooth, pressed wood, it would prove the heavens have no place on earth. I wonder how long you've wanted to touch another woman. Or did you once, and now you can't forget? I'll never know you, outside this dream, or why you left that thin edge of ragged paper tucked close to the book's spine, but I imagine how you must lie awake, thinking about the instant you closed the book and how the pages before and after that poem you stole must still shudder at their unrestrained touch.

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