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"Still Life with Stranger."

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"Come on, Ulrich, the
great octagon of the sky

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is passing over us.

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Soon the world
will have moved on.

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Your love affair, what is it
but a tempest in a teapot.

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But such storms exude
strange resonance,

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the power of the
Almighty reduced

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to its infinitesimal root,
hangs like the chant of bees,

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the milky drooping leaves of the
birch on a windless autumn day.

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Call these phenomena
or pinpoints.

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Remote as the glittering
trash of heaven,

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yet the monstrous frame
remains, filling up with regret

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with straw or on another
level with the quick grace

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of the singing falling snow.

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You are good at persuading
them to sing with you.

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Above you, horses graze,
forgetting daylight

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inside the barn.

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Creeper dangles
against rock face.

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Pointed roofs bear witness.

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The whole cast of
characters is imaginary now.

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But up ahead in shadow,
the past waits."

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