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 The Breathing by Denise Levertov 
						An absolutepatience.
 Trees stand
 up to their knees in
 fog. The fog
 slowly flows
 uphill.
 White
 cobwebs, the grass
 leaning where deer
 have looked for apples.
 The woods
 from brook to where
 the top of the hill looks
 over the fog, send up
 not one bird.
 So absolute, it is
 no other than
 happiness itself, a breathing
 too quiet to hear.
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