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Website title: Via Negativa – Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003.

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Poem as Apology to the Universe
For all the times I believe better
to ask forgiveness instead of permission.

For the times I break the quiet,
and all the times I refuse to speak.

For plucking fruit still jacketed in green
just to cut it open and prove it has a heart.

For pressing my eager hand on the glass
and lifting the ropes, despite the warnings.

For all the times I...

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Conversion

Up betimes, and Mr. Moore coming to see me, he and I discoursed of going to Oxford this Commencement, Mr. Nathaniel Crew being Proctor and Mr. Childe commencing Doctor of Musique this year, which I have a great mind to do, and, if I can, will order my matters so that I may do it.
By and by, he and I to the Temple, it raining hard, my cozen Roger being got out, he and I wa...


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It was
the uncanny distribution of quakes
all over the globe, some deadlier than
others— Did the tortoise in the center
of the earth finally tire of shouldering
our burdens and maybe step away from
the pillar that holds everything in place?
Yesterday, towers stood like gleaming
sheaths beneath the broiling sun as though
they would withstand every form of ...

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Beyond imagination

Up both of us pretty early and to my chamber, where he and I did draw up a letter to Sir G. Carteret in excuse and preparation for Creed against we meet before the Duke upon his accounts, which I drew up and it proved very well, but I am pleased to see with what secret cunning and variety of artifice this Creed has carried on his business even unknown to me, which he is now f...


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It was
the small graft that took, the barely green
patched into the rootstock of another. Or
whip and tongue, cleft together. Meaning,
a wound is made to shorten the time
it takes to fruit or flower. Virgil wrote
of where the buds push forth amidst
the bark, and burst the membranes
thin, but we only talk about toughening
the skin. Legends...

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