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1975 Year of the Half-Hinged Mouth and the Hollow Bones, Year of the Thorn, Year of the Rope and the Dead Coal, Year of the Hammering Mountain, Year of the Sponge . . I open the book of What I Can Never Know To page 1, and start to read: "The snow falls from the hills to the sea, from the cloud To the cloud's body, water to water . . . " At 40, the apricot Seems raised to a higher power, the fire ant and the weed. And I turn in the wind, Not knowing what sign to make, or where I should kneel. 125 ...

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