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Quotation by Denise Levertov
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When my body leaves me
I'm lonesome for it.
but body
goes away to I don't know where
and it's lonesome to drift
above the space it
fills when it's here.
I'm lonesome for it.
but body
goes away to I don't know where
and it's lonesome to drift
above the space it
fills when it's here.
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo–U.S. poet. "Gone Away."
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