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63 Meditation at Petoskey An old woman on the beach hands me a stone. I tell her of the ruining landscape, tortoise backs of stone, algae colonies, like puzzles on rock, the lighthouse column with its cracked putty and rotating eye. But she says, nothing has changed, we have always been this way—a thousand young larks mount the sudden breeze. ...

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