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Article: Becoming Light.
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- August 13, 1999
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"Let them learn how to live and die more lightly."
Czeslaw Milosz
Mists rise in the valleys, skim off
with the breath of farm ponds.
As when we are no longer weighted down
with wants. Even as gravity pulls
us closer to our mother, Gaea,
even as the flesh draws down, flattens,
squeezes bony discs, compacts them,
we must levitate, glide across that distance,
smell that lap of death as waters
wash and waste the shore,
the eyes see farther, can now
make out the riffles on the far bank
as the ...
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