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Only a dream, I think, waking
to the sound of nothing.
Not nothing. I heard: it was a beach, or shore,
and someone far off, walking.
Nowhere familiar. Somewhere I’ve been before.
It always takes a long time
to decipher where you are.

Margaret Atwood, last lines to “The Ottawa River by Night” (via growing-orbits)
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Posted on August 2, 2012 via with 238 notes

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Only a dream, I think, waking to the sound of nothing. Not nothing. I heard: it was a beach, or shore, and someone far off, walking. Nowhere familiar. Somewhere I’ve been before. It always takes a long time to decipher where you are.

Only a dream, I think, waking
to the sound of nothing.
Not nothing. I heard: it was a beach, or shore,
and someone far off, walking.
Nowhere familiar. Somewhere I’ve been before.
It always takes a long time
to decipher where you are.