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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (2928)	3/3/1999 12:04:00 AM
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how powerful this is ...beyond words. As for dreams,..., Blue Cloud is definitive.... Thank you. Not as but... SKY I should have begun with this: the sky. A window minus sill, frame, and panes. An aperture, nothing more, but wide open. I don't have to wait for a starry night, I don't have to crane my neck to get a look at it. I've got the sky behind my back, at hand, and on my eyelids. The sky binds me tight and sweeps me off my feet. Even the highest mountains are no closer to the sky than the deepest valleys. There's no more of it in one place than another. A mole is no less in seventh heaven than the owl spreading her wings. The object that falls in an abyss falls from sky to sky. Grainy, gritty, liquid, inflamed or volatile patches of sky, specks of sky, gusts and heaps of sky. The sky is everywhere, even in the dark beneath your skin. I eat the sky, I excrete the sky. I'm a trap within a trap, an inhabited inhabitant, an embrace embraced, a question answering a question. Division into sky and earth -- it's not the proper way to contemplate this wholeness. It simply lets me go on living at a more exact address where I can be reached promptly if I'm sought. My identifying features are rapture and despair. Wislawa Szymborska