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The Endless Undiluted Silence
I wish I could reach you there,
where it is you live now, the ripples
of days cascading to no sound, where
it is you aren’t. I can’t get beyond that wall,
I can’t find you anywhere. Not in the nightly
news, not on the patio near the birdfeeders
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