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The second one is
also in that book.

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And it has an epigraph
from Czesław Miłosz.

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It says, "the witnesses are
old things, undimmed, dense

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with the life of human hands."

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"My hand on chiseled
stone fitting

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into the invisible print
of the mason's own, where

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it lay a moment of that year,
the nave was still half risen,

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roofless.

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There's a past that
won't suffice--

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years in billions,
walls of strata.

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My need roams history,
centuries not eons,

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and replica is useless.

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The new dust floated past.

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His mate, from the scaffolding,
reached down for the water jug.

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This stone or another,
no inch of all untouched.

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Cold, yes, but that human
trace will burn my palm.

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This is a hunger."

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