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Nora Korkalo
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So he gave in. He loved. He loved his soul, loved that unruly jungle of himself, —
precipitate wilderness,
On which his heart, like a green light, reposed.
— Jul 29, 2026 12:12PM
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precipitate wilderness,
On which his heart, like a green light, reposed.
Nora Korkalo
is on page 39 of 113
Were not love and parting
Laid on their shoulders with so light a touch
As though they knew them in a different guise?
— Jul 28, 2026 07:30PM
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Laid on their shoulders with so light a touch
As though they knew them in a different guise?
Nora Korkalo
is on page 38 of 113
elegy 2: Infinity within a finite being…
As dew from springing grass, as the hot steam from smoking dish, so the intrinsic self exhales itself away...
See, it has happened to me that my hands grew conscious of each other…
Yet who would dare, by that, to say: I am?
Discussion on mortality and the afterlife, of faith and of humanity and of the brevity of existence.
— Jul 28, 2026 07:28PM
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As dew from springing grass, as the hot steam from smoking dish, so the intrinsic self exhales itself away...
See, it has happened to me that my hands grew conscious of each other…
Yet who would dare, by that, to say: I am?
Discussion on mortality and the afterlife, of faith and of humanity and of the brevity of existence.
Nora Korkalo
is on page 30 of 113
Is it not time that we who love should free ourselves from the beloved, and quivering, resist? Most like the arrow that strives against the bowstring, gathered up, that in its leap it may transcend itself.
Nothing which is, is static.
— Jul 28, 2026 07:20PM
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Nothing which is, is static.
