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Common Knowledge Common Knowledge by John Burnside
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“Sometimes you linger days
upon a word,
a single, uncontaminated drop
of sound; for days

it trembles, liquid to the mind,
then falls:
mere denotation
dimming the undertow of language.”
John Burnside, Common Knowledge