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How the Past Comes Back

Like shadow across a stone,         gradually–                 the name it darkens; as one enters the world                 through language–         like a child learning to speak                 then naming everything; as flower,…

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Theories of Time and Space

You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south on Mississippi 49, one- by-one mile markers ticking off another minute of your life. Follow this to its natural conclusion—dead end…

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Myth

I was asleep while you were dying. It’s as if you slipped through some rift, a hollow I make between my slumber and my waking, the Erebus I keep you in, still trying not to let go. You’ll be dead again tomorrow, but in dreams you live. So I try taking…

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