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Begin with loss and see
how the world contradicts you,
how the horizon implies that beyond it
the water is not empty
but full of ships
all docking at another island.

Lynn Emanuel

Lynn Emanuel (b. 1949), U.S. poet. "Robinson Crusoe Talks to Friday," lines 1-6 (1979).

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