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/ _Torban_
/ Lightly sharp and even, / Your voice is the sound of an airplane / Darting high above your unreceptive face. / Your voice is unrelated / To the structure of your face, / And on your lips an echo merely rides, / The pagan shimmerings of your face / Receive the voice with a subtle disbelief. / Indeed, your intellectuality, / Speeding though spaces over your head, / Must seem of little consequence / To the nymph who listens far below. / That you are thus divided is not strange, / But you contain a third Self / And it regards the other two / With a grave and patient interest.