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He felt the web of light unravel, rainbow
Filaments from point to point detach
And quiver to invisibility
Like a newly discovered harmonic system
[…] Like an edelweiss dissected
With a bayonet. He felt it coming apart,
All of it at once coming apart.
Fred Chappell, from “Webern’s Mountain,” First and Last Words: Poems

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