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@@ -8,24 +8,33 @@ project: | |||
8 | css: autocento | 8 | css: autocento |
9 | ... | 9 | ... |
10 | 10 | ||
11 | This poem is dry like chapped lips. \ | 11 | This poem is dry like [chapped lips][]. \ |
12 | It is hard as teeth---hear the tapping? \ | 12 | [It is hard as teeth][]---hear the tapping? \ |
13 | It is the swan song of beauty, as all \ | 13 | It is the swan song of beauty, as all \ |
14 | swan songs are. Reading it, you are \ | 14 | swan songs are. [Reading][] it, you are \ |
15 | puzzled, perhaps a little repulsed. \ | 15 | puzzled, perhaps a little repulsed. \ |
16 | Swans do not have teeth, nor do they sing. \ | 16 | Swans do not have teeth, nor do they sing. \ |
17 | A honking over the cliff is all \ | 17 | A honking over the cliff is all \ |
18 | they can do, and that they do \ | 18 | they can do, and that they do \ |
19 | badly. You don't know where I'm going. \ | 19 | badly. You don't know where I'm going. \ |
20 | You want to tell me, You are not you. \ | 20 | You want to tell me, [You are not you][]. \ |
21 | You are the air the swan walks on. \ | 21 | [You are the air the swan walks on.][] \ |
22 | You are the fringe of the curtain \ | 22 | You are the fringe of the curtain \ |
23 | that separates me from you. I say \ | 23 | [that separates me from you][]. I say \ |
24 | that you are no longer the temple, \ | 24 | that you are no longer the temple, \ |
25 | that you have been through fire \ | 25 | that you have been through [fire][] \ |
26 | and are now less than ash. You are \ | 26 | and are now less than ash. You are \ |
27 | the subtraction of yourself from \ | 27 | the subtraction of yourself from \ |
28 | the world, the air without a swan. \ | 28 | the world, [the air without a swan][]. \ |
29 | Together, we are each other. You \ | 29 | Together, we are each other. You \ |
30 | and I have both nothing and everything \ | 30 | and I have both nothing and everything \ |
31 | at once, we own the world and nothing in it. | 31 | at once, we own the world and nothing in it. |
32 | |||
33 | [chapped lips]: time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html | ||
34 | [It is hard as teeth]: no-nothing.html | ||
35 | [Reading]: poetry-time.html | ||
36 | [You are not you]: about-the-author.html | ||
37 | [You are the air the swan walks on.]: swansong.html | ||
38 | [that separates me from you]: elegyforanalternateself.html | ||
39 | [fire]: fire.html | ||
40 | [the air without a swan]: finding-the-lion.html | ||