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View
by Judith Van Leeuwen
Keep the cliff immovable, keep
it in mind, with the light
sea reaching, reaching
and falling, trying and failing
to climb the rock.
Not to translate is the greater art
Life on leaves of paper
sea into meaning, stones
into eternity. There is a bottom
to all this, comforting none.
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