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“How grief pummels us sharp, breaks upon us to shape the faces we give the world, the languages we speak in secret. Here, far above the water line pines congregate and meet the ocean. Landscape climaxes against the crash of water. The white walls strike this fawn height.”

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Book:Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire

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