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| Whether what we sense of this world |
| is the what of this world only, or the what |
| of which of several possible worlds |
| --which what?--something of what we sense |
| may be true, may be the world, what it is, what we sense. |
| For the rest, a truce is possible, the tolerance |
| of travelers, eating foreign foods, trying words |
| that twist the tongue, to feel that time and place, |
| not thinking that this is the real world. |
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| Conceded, that all the clocks tell local time; |
| conceded, that "here" is anywhere we bound |
| and fill a space; conceded, we make a world: |
| is something caught there, contained there,
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| something real, something which we can sense? |
| Once in a city blocked and filled, I saw |
| the light lie in the deep chasm of a street, |
| palpable and blue, as though it had drifted in |
| from say, the sea, a purity of space. |
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