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The idea, for example, that each particular Erases the luminous clarity of the general idea. (lines 3-4)
Meditation at Lagunitas (title)
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking. (lines 1-2)
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking. (lines 1-2)
There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with...
