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“The Fates were heard as winds To our ears they ran faster and threw their voices further than we could understand Thus we watched the tides reaching out slowly and thin on to barely felt journeys The shuddering tides whose movements became of our own body Familiar and well-used and unremarkable to us”

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Mystical Tides

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