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“still in her white night clothes in the same long entangle- ment”
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“so the thought goes on recycling itself”
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“the village is lost in its veils a few dreams lean over the lanes like nettles”
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“wet and sweet like stewed apples this must be the heart this is only a dream”
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“when a man rolls over and sighs”
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“examining the whole horizonless question of desire”
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“this must be the heart this must be my innermost thought this is only a dream”
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“she never quite completes her sentence but is always almost”
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“severed by light from myself not knowing but almost”
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“but it is glittering now in the gaps between things”
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“and the hour is quickened by crows”
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“and magpies coming straight from a meeting with misfortune”
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“rewinding and grieving rewinding and grieving”
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“and hearing the lurch the well-known slap of joy”
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“nothing yet has a shadow every- thing is here but pale”
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“and what precisely is this shining”
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“as soon as the grief as soon as a ghost begins to shake me from the inside”
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“a kiss gives off a swoosh of amnesia”
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“which is a memory which happens again and again”
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“what a block of hope what a kleptomaniac what a thief of life I am”
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“and the whole apparition only ever known backwards already too late now almost gone”
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“little distant sounds of shut-away singing”
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“little whispering fidgeting of a shut-away congregation wondering who to pray to”
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“and I who live in the basement one level down from the world”
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“this is the the sound this is the very floor where Grief and his Wife are living looking up”
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“6 a.m. scrabbling at the earth”
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“breaking out of their mass grave”
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“and then (as if a lock had gone and the Spring had broken loose)”
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“not looking up but lost in pause”
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“what a nervous readiness attached to its lament”
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“and working with the same bewitched slightly off-hand look as the sea”
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“they say the herons used to hang like lamps here giving off gloom”
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“Three people in the snow getting rid of themselves breath by breath”
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“and every six seconds a blackbird”
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“having had the gleam taken out of her to the point where she resembles twilight”
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“it's a pitiable likeness of clear running struggling to keep up with what's already gone”
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“beautiful disused route to the sea fish path with nearly no fish in”
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“so by degrees I became invisible in that spotted sick-room light and nobody found me there.”
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