Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives— tried to imagine what the crisp fringes, full of honey, hanging from the branches of the young locust trees, in early summer, feel like? Do you think this world is only an entertainment for you? Never to enter the sea and notice how the water divides with perfect courtesy, to let you in! Never to lie down on the grass, as though you were the grass! Never to leap to the air as you open your wings over the dark acorn of your heart! No wonder we hear, in your mournful voice,
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