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Autumn 1993 • Vol. XV No. 4 • Poetry |

Softly

Wherever we walk, we walk
over the silent. Cities
layer on layer,
we know, or never heard of;

whose citizens gave themselves
in sleep to dreams not understood,
saw how far the stars were
and how the moon shrank and went.

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