There is a blessed fidelity in things,
graceless things grow lovely with good uses. - John Tarrant
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Expecting more rain.
Not yet light though 6 a.m.-
night still over the barn.
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for Karthik, departing

Who has twisted us like this, so that -
no matter what we do - we have the bearing
of a man going away...so we live, 
forever saying farewell. -- Rainer Maria Rilke

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out of hearing -