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Solitary's Solace in the Natural Sciences
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Solitary's Solace in the Natural Sciences Axed at the right point wood snaps into strips along its grain. Rocks too crack, along pre-extant tracks. Weakest at the spine, down lines of symmetry, the shell, the skull tapped by a gentle hammer, tell the halves (of life beginning, and life lost). We are most vulnerable where last we were conjoined. I hold this fact in my fist like a fifty-dollar bill, like a future, like a first unbreakable egg . . . 119 This page intentionally left blank ...