Wire Pass Narrows

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    “Constantly risking absurdity
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    the poet like an acrobat
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    —Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)

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    “Pass in, pass in,” the angels say,”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)