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July 12, 2004
Keep this place in mind, the peace you came to, pausing here by Indian River. The water green as absinthe, the thundering so like silence Think of birds you saw, or heard—the dipper balancing on a stone before it entered the stream, the easy torrent of song released from the throat of a wren. You have come to admire a music that isn’t human and here, it’s everywhere in leaf, bird, and falling water. Something other than our own— the inexplicable greenness of these deep pools—and yet analogous to the mind’s clearest impulse. from The Disappearing Poet Blues.
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