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And this, which is called
"Tracing a Thirst," an attempt,

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in fact, to trace exactly that
trajectory of the poem to its

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source.

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Called it-- tracing a
thirst, the poem as it

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sluices a passage; with
each, dry utterance,

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edges towards its own
obfuscated source.

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No, not the world, the
world's, but, perhaps,

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its very postulate,
what the winds would

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lap, and the tongue,
ultimately, muscle--

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breath, like so
many empty bubbles,

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brought to that pleated lip.