"Full of desire I lay, the sky wounding me"

"Each cloud a ship without
me sailing"

"mortal death, heartbreak"

"My human speech forsook
my fingers"

" and out of reach were Homer's ghosts, the savage conches of the beach"

"The sky spoke to me in
language clear"

"Know now that you are born along with these clouds, winds and stars"

"This world you with the flower and with the tiger share"

"Burned with the holy fire
of passion"

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