I half believe all wines exist at once within this glass, I almost half believe each can be tasted singly, while the whole is savoured. But the thought is delicate and open to dispute: Falerian mixed in with new Bordeaux? I half assume that in this garden, everything contends in flowering, with every other bloom: fritillary and nightshade in one space at once with Lenten rose and cosmos, sown with careless imprecision through the beds as if the gardener had a plan, and these all intersect together, politics, this garden, words and sex, remembering that lyric narrative's sequential, eyes follow this page, our lips make lines, and yet sound's meaning, and the known is what we feel while all our complex memories converge.
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