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face=Arial size=2>I have a friend named Baba.</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial size=2>She recently sent me this poem.</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
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size=3><FONT face=Arial size=2>For me, it captures with great power and
beauty much of our discussion on the topic over the past month or so.
She wrote it the day after what has subsequently come to be known as 911 (the
poem has nine lines: including the title and signature, eleven). Florian, can I
enter her poem in our contest?</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Winston</DIV>
<P><SPAN><STRONG>A subject too big for poetry</STRONG> </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN></SPAN>can softness come <BR>from steel and glass colliding <BR>or
clarity from concrete churned with rage? <BR>in this unholy uproar <BR>what is
the provenance of stillness? <BR>with fear unloosed and everything on fire
<BR>and falling <BR>how to imagine love <BR>and a road rising up? <BR
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