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5 A D E E P E R Q U I E T, T H E N S I L E N C E Sometimes the quiet here in the cabin is so keen that there’s a ringing that comes with it— a kind of burning away of inequities, the way Isis placed the queen’s baby daughter into the flames, then turned her into a sparrow that flew around the room whenever the queen entered. The quiet and silence restorative, then I enter the sound of the river from the bridge above it. What is restorative is in the cleansing of that: being filled by the movement in the rush of the water. What is cleansing is in how the river streams to flow beyond us, healing us with the sound of its rush, before I walk back to the cabin, and reenter a deeper quiet, then silence. ...

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