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The soul, he said, is composed / Of the external world.
There are men of the East, he said, / Who are the East. / There are men of a province / Who are that province / There are men of a valley / Who are that valley.
There are men whose words / Are as natural sounds / Of their places / As the cackle of toucans / In the place of toucans.
The mandoline is the instrument / Of a place.
Are there mandolines of western mountains? / Are there mandolines of northern moonlight?
The dress of a woman of Lhassa, / In its place, / Is an invisible element of that place / Made visible.