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THE OTHER EARTH At first we embrace trees. Lie with the swan, the bull, become stars. Blackbirds form bridges across thesky: we pass, lightly placing our feet. The god enters our rooms in a shower of gold. Into the intricate maze a white thread, a woman, a fish come to guide our way out. Docile as horses, we go. When the plain world comes, with its explanations smooth and cool as a marble statue's skin, we go, rising out of the dark. Being careless and proud, we look back towards the other earth: how it wavers and goes out, like a girl with an errand to do in another room. 56 ...

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