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A poem called "Teatro."

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Sped each time into emptiness,
gathering as we did--

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reflexive--

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against the oncoming naught.

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Taut the tendons.

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The raw curtains drawn
onto our own releases.

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What if room, the scuttled
bracelets and strewn shoes,

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were nothing more
than so much decor?

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And ourselves, massed in
motion, but the figurants

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of some abstract enactment?

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No.

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Not nothing, had
written, but nothing,

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and our limbs nimble
swimming towards.

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Special use of the word
nothing which I think

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derives from negative theology
from Meister Eckhart from Saint

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John of the Cross's nada.

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It's a nothing that could be
easily translated as everything.

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It's a reversible word.

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