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After Sappho

Listen: there is no proof that this moment,silver nitrate and sparkling, will be remembered.Everything disintegrates; the blue-blackstain on the daguerreotype, silk shatterfrom water and color and sun, the accidentof turning your face away. The poetwho wrote

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