It absorbs the human, drags us into the amoral natural world, where we are complicit in everything we ordinarily find abject and abhorrent.
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Why I swim
The water’s fine.
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Give us a long winter / and quiet music, and patient mouths, / and a little pride — before / our age ends.
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At the beginning of the year, I made a commitment to read only women.
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