Painterly pale stone and terracotta hands reaching towards each other across a small gap.

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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond...

e.e. cummings

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

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The speaker describes a beloved's eyes as a quiet place beyond anything they have known, and finds happily unfamiliar territory there. Even the beloved's most delicate movement holds things that surround them, or that are so close they cannot be touched. The tone is awed, tender and intimate.

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