“The number two, he thought, was an ominous number. Two is a reflection or duplication of one, the most perfect of the natural numbers. Two is all echo and counterpoise; two is the beginning of multiplicity, the way the universal oneness differentiates itself and breaks apart into strings and quarks and photons, all the separate and component pieces of life. Two is a symbol of becoming as opposed to pure being...”
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“I tell him I will try to fall out of love with him, but I feel I will love him all my life.”
“I still dreamed it sometimes, the illusion of a constellation visible only from a certain vantage”
“I never thought to see you again, I never thought to seek you.”
“and it's as if my body has not heard, or hasn't believed, the news”
“in a sky whose darkness is fading, that first dream, from which I am now waking.”
“Dread and sorrow reaching, in time, into every reach”
“He lived so enclosed in himself, he seemed alive not exactly like others, but hibernating”
“I called for him through solid earth until he woke, and left.”
“Once, each summer, I howl, and draw myself back, out of there”
“we sweated side by side three times like a spell or a curse”