"This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve……" — Christopher Cokinos
"This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the wedded reach, the losing touch of self to self, contented more or less and known not nearly well enough."
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Christopher Cokinos
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