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“The Boy from Thuringia” is part of a series of stories collectively called The History of Adoption. In it, a middle-aged man sets out rather obsessively to write a comprehensive history of the adopted child. In his attempts to finally begin this im
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I find Vermeer and Bach and feel/
for a moment a shower of my own world’s/
prismatics.
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If I knew beauty, I could/
wake her where she dreams,/
persuade her to inform each/
gestured choice I make.
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We can’t be sure. Perhaps it is/
some slight exaggeration of one/
or several elements that steals our breath.
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To listen is to feel embodied reason//
sing and dance with consummate grace
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Eroica sprawled among/
the horns and violins
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