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so lost in a simple place can’t find my way back
he names it cognitive loss i say a difference of degree
he says he can’t follow the conversation
old pound could not make it cohere
perhaps it does not
i say a difference of degree he says you do not realize the pain of loss
are we not being shown something else in losing the way
whose way was it are there not others
the older boy at the table he is a man he is thirty or so sits with his parents he has
a sweet full smile it is a little off he finds something to talk about something he knows
it is fishing & he shows pictures on his cell phone
“His being in the world – even unto death,
which measures its finitude –
is a comprehension of being” <114>
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thanks for this & for susan’s humane contribution to eoagh & to tim for letting these pages expand our understanding of who can speak and who speaks