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- Article Title: Arrival
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Where the mind comes from,
where it goes,
when the moon rose,
where among the stars the light was seen
as you were born:
if it glistened in the tracks
stamped on leaves across the park
where we walked the early afternoon, alert,
listening up,
hearing how the plovers
pipe back and forth across the grass …
Where the mind comes from,
where it goes,
when the wind rose, where among the clouds
it had tunnelled through the night,
arced and pummelled through the night
as you were born:
eyes shut against the many-hours-dark
heart-slowed
many-hours-long tunnel from the known,
before the air,
voice-struck, and the light.
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