The Paris Review - Fall 2016

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a line of the river stays true to itself, struggling against the force of the waves, diving lower like the path of a simple song beneath the crash of the sea’s orchestration ~ rain on the grass rain on the sea rain on the roof and rain on you and me flowing for a mile and then for thousands, darting past the giants and the drifting plankton, plunging to wrecks brimmed by phosphorescent swimmers, where the chambered nautilus works its pinhole camera ~ and on through vastness, nameless ~ 137
unknown ~ the limits of nerve and human senses ~ lightless ~ airless ~ Is there a mnemonic for its hidden constellations? Are there mirror forms blooming in the pressing dark? the man who carries the water pot, and the fish with glittering scales While, miles above, container ships and solitary tankers float suspended beyond the law. Steel under sun as cruel as the sun, abandoned and unforgiving. ~~~ I was dreaming and awoke 138
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wrote a long essay on James Baldwin
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his literary status that made him s
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ONCE THE READING was underway, Lesl
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elations. I was clumsy, and inexper
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PRYNNE He was a great fountainhead
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this phenomenon of molecular forces
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about Parmenides as an author you c
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ight at the conclusion of the poem,
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Edinburgh, all over the place. On t
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dialectical part of it comes in. It
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