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::Athens:: From Bed Series, 2003 by Jessica Levey

"... When we journey alone together through the wild country
of the soul, and I envy your greater courage, which looks solid
as mahogany, or your agile heart, softly flaming like pearl,
remind me of the child too small to peer over snowbanks,
who sailed mythic seas, and hand-crafted worlds..."

From "How the Poet Got Her Stripes," by Diane Ackerman