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“There is that in me – I do not know what it is but I know it is in me. Wretch’d and sweaty – calm and cool then my body becomes, I sleep – I sleep long. I do not know it – it is without name – it is a word unsaid, it is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol. Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on, To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me. Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters. Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death – it is form, union, plan – it is eternal life – it is Happiness.” Walt Whitman

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in screw-tight slumber—

a rigid frame cradles

a golden songbird, haunting, beholden.

Notes arc out in curving grace,

bending toward a wrench’s face,

which hums along—a softened clang,

a metal harmony that rang.

Beside it, vintage poise

a needle box, so still, so coy—

balanced on a breath of brass,

teetering as moments pass.

Below, a tube of silence gleams

holding echoes from vanished dreams

All enclosed in a wooden shell,

where time and tone in stillness dwell.


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