The subject line is from Diane Ackerman's "I Praise My Destroyer," which also contains these lines:
it was grace to live
among the fruits of summer, to love by design,
and walk the startling Earth
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Cigarette machine, Jerusalem, 2009
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Poetry machine, The Paper Hound Bookshop, Vancouver, 2013
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Stationery shop, Wilmington (NC), 2012
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Madison County Public Library, 2008
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Paris, 2009
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