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“To learn about the invisible,
look at the visible,” says
the Talmud. I have seen you
for so long you are
ground into the walls,
so long I can’ remember
your face when you’re away,
so long I have to look
each night when you come home
at the tall surprise you bring
me, time and time again.
Lisel Mueller
from the poem In Praise of Surfaces
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