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Rae Armantrout

Geography

Geography

Geography

                1

Touch each chakra
in turn and say,


“Nothing shocks me.”


                2

Watching bombs fall
on Syria,

we feel serious,

occupied,

not preoccupied
as we were

previously.


                3

“Makes me end,
where I begun,”

wrote   John Donne,

turning love
into geometry.
Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout

(Verenigde Staten, 1947)

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Geography

                1

Touch each chakra
in turn and say,


“Nothing shocks me.”


                2

Watching bombs fall
on Syria,

we feel serious,

occupied,

not preoccupied
as we were

previously.


                3

“Makes me end,
where I begun,”

wrote   John Donne,

turning love
into geometry.

Geography

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