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THE RED HEART
THE MAN WHOSE PATH WAS ON FIRE

James Reaney

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NOTATIONS FROM THE I CHING

thunder beneath the mountain, the sign
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is innocence. Wu Wang— the unexpected.
"Doin what comes natcherly." Money
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has nothing
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to do with it, nor
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success.

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Space
does, the way it's taken, filled,
referred to.

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(say Donaldson with his three-foot door
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and he has to duck, going
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from one room to the other,
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or the Japanese, elbows in,
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bending to fit the small space.

Clearing the ground, finding and making the space
fit for use.

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Or now,
my friends,
arranging themselves among the furniture,
on the floor,
talking, talking.