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¨¨,-;†%#¶# Winds esker #¶#%†;-,¨¨
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¨,-;†%#¶## There Was This Place That For Two Years ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# I Couldn'T Go To. Regardless How Much #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Discussed With Others, Or Pointed Out ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# On Maps, I Could Not Think Of It When #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Alone. I Would Often Travel Past The ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Fork, Where A Right Turn Would Surely #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Take Me There, But Even Then, Something ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Kept Me Away. #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# When I Finally Got There, After Some #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Heavy Subconscious Battle I Must ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Assume, The Place Was Surreal. An #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Esker, Like A Needle-Thin Rift Out In ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# The Lake, But Ten Meters High And #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Adorned In Birch, Willow, Bracken, And ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Blueberries. #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Walking Atop That Spine, I Came To #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Notice The View To Either Side. There ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Should Be Shores, Of Course, But I #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Didn'T Recognize Them. First Off, They ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Were Much Too Close, As The Lake Should #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Stretch For A Hundred Meters More On ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Both Sides. But Now I Felt I Could #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Almost Reach Out And Touch Them. And ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Then, When I Realized Which Shores They #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Were, I Had To Stop. ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## They Were Of The Right Lake. But This ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Lake Is Large, Fractured, And #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Bipartite. Like A Pair Of Lungs Carved ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Into The Granite, And With No Less Than #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Five Communities Anchored At Various ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Points. And So, Studying These #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Impossibly Close Shores, I Slowly ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Understood Them As Belonging Many Miles #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Away. ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## I Examined The Ridge, The Treeline ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Above. Was This What You Saw Opposite, #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## From Those Other Shores? I Couldn'T ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Remember. #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Carrying Forward, On The Very Tip Of #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## The Esker, I Found The Ruins Of Some ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Old Building. There Were Overgrown #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Marble Staircases, Stone Floors Beneath ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# The Moss, And Strange Slabs Inserted #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Into The Slope Like Dams Against The ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Ground Itself. #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Sitting There, I Could See Across The #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Narrowed Lake My Entire Path To Where I ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Sat: From The Stairwell Of My House, #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Through The Old Woods Behind The Tile ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Factory, The Bridge Over Route #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Twenty three And Then Back Under It, ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Through The Fancy Villas, Over The #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Fields, And Then That Right Turn At The ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Fork. #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# And Then The Stairs Up On The Ridge. #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Thinking Back, This Was Probably It. ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Hidden In A Grove, There Were Stairs #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Much Like The Ones I Currently Sat On, ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Old And Worn Down, That Lead You Up #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Onto The Esker. The Point Of Entry. Had ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# I Insted Opted To Walk The Path At Its #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Foot, I'M Sure My Experience Would'Ve ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Been Different Indeed. #¶#%†;-,¨¨
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¨¨,-;†%#¶# On The Lake, There Were People In #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Boats. I Wondered, Could They Even See ##¶#%†;-,¨
¨¨,-;†%#¶# Me? If I Shouted, Would They Turn To #¶#%†;-,¨¨
¨,-;†%#¶## Stare Right Through Me? ##¶#%†;-,¨
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