How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our l…

Wendell Berry
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How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves ✨ Wendell Berry (2012). New Collected Poems, p.315, Counterpoint Press
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