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Frage sing 2a
Meditation at Lagunitas
By ROBERT HASS
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every odd the luminous clarty of 3 general idea. That the clown
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ope Sejcb of tat back bch, By fis presence, To, sores
raion some tragic falling off from a first wortd ¢! Cenk ps
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because there is in this world no one thing
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‘rg_ taiking this way, everything dissolves: Justice, Woere movers
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fog, Spine, hair you and 1. Ther 2 % Prnetple
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her small shoukters in my hands somet if
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1 felt a violent wonder at her presence e love »
like a thirst for sait, for my childhood river Me,
wh 1 an wows, iy mse rom the lasur boat, nee HE ids
sry pices where we caught the tle arange-sver fish
called purrpkinseed. Ie hardy had to do with her
Longing, we say, because desire is ful
Pox’ of endless dlstences. 1 must have been the same to her. —3 flea cng
7. But remember so much, the way Ror hands diemantied bree: ee 2 oe
the thing her fother said that nurt her, what
she dreamed, There are moments when the body Is as numinou
2s warts, days tat are thelgnod fest) some
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saying blackverry, blackberry, blackberry. wR
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