I love his spiritual sister
because she snatched clarity
from her murky history.
(Henry James In The Heart Of The City)
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Knowing as we do
our certain doom,
knowing as we do
the rarity of the gifts we gave
& received,
can we redeem
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dust it off like a fine sea trunk
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