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Stranger

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Stranger

 

Standing and turning.

.

Do I face a real unknown?

Or a familiar countenance

in unfamiliar veil.

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Partly mine and not my own;

What I survey I do

as traveler:

Where do I trespass?

Where am I at home?

.

This is not my land

these are not my words,

my sounds,

and to partake may be forbidden

by some unknown orthodoxy:

is it other or my own?

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