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Disintegrate In Reverse

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'ICARUS - OF GRAVITY AND LIGHT

The things that fall
are what we treasure most:
attendants
in the house of gravity,
we sense the imminent
in every book
left open on a table
or a chair;
in every sugar bowl
or deck of cards
we understand
another life resides,
older than time
and dizzy with momentum;
yet, since the soul
is weightless, being neither
flesh and bone, nor shadow,
nor that sound
of falling in the distance
we mistake
for death,
or flight,
nothing is ever solid
in itself,
and substance
is another form of sleep
as feathers are,
no matter that the light
is still around a body
while it falls,
keeping it true, unhindered,
counterpoised,
something immense
to set against the pulse.'

(John Burnside)
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