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A Kind Of Loss
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Used together: seasons, books, a piece of music. 5.6 / 10
The keys, teacups, bread basket, sheet and a bed. ( 21 votes )
A hope chest of words, of gestures, brought back, used, used up.
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A household order maintained. Said. Done. And always a head was there.
I've fallen in love with winter, with a Viennese septet, wiht summer.
With Village maps, a mountain nest, a beach and a bed.
Kept a calender cult, declared promises irrevocable, Print friendly version
bowed before something, was pious to a nothing
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From my balcony I greeted entire peoples, my neighbors.
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It's not you I've lost,
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but the world.
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