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Sonnets for a Valediction
1992
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1992
Boar
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Epigraph: As the great boar arose, holding the earth, his belly dripping with water, shaking his great body that was made of the Vedas, the sages who had gone between his bristles praised him...The earth stayed like a great ship on the top of the flood of water and did not sink, because her body was spread out. - Visnu Purana
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Tenth and final poem in the sequence.
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