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Слушать(AI)Failure of Communion
What is the space between, enclosing us in one united person, yet dividing each alone.
Frail bridges cross from eye to eye, from flesh to flesh, from word to word: the net is gapped at every mesh, and this each human knows: however close our touch or intimate our speech, silences, spaces reach most deep, and will not close.
Judith Wright
Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 1915 – 25 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was
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