Whose silence are you? ✨ Thomas Merton, Lynn Szabo (2005). In the Dark…

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Whose silence are you? ✨ Thomas Merton, Lynn Szabo (2005). In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton, p.90, New Directions Publishing
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