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I could reach down and dip my fingers in the sky - dip my fingers where mackerel clouds scatter their scales from east to west. That magic space below is high and deep - deep and high, and a swallow flies and a gnat dances through the water’s void; whilst, in the evening’s murmur, a salmon leaps, and ripple on ripple expands like a universe unstirring blue.
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This text was added to the website: 2024-03-04
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