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RACHEL WETZSTEON
The strings, as if they knew
the lovers are about to meet, begin
to soar, and when he marches in the door
they soar some more—half ecstasy, half pain
the musical equivalent of rain
—Poetry, October 2010
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Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon (1830–1835), oil on canvas, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin | artwork by Caspar David Friedrich





