Lake
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When we were young
we talked about bottomless lakes,
which meant to us the same lakes
were bottomless in China.
—Braided Creek
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As every one knows,
meditation and water
are wedded for ever.
—Herman Melville
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
—Wallace Stevens
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Poem: The Chairs That No One Sits In
Poem: [At Lake George on the table]
Poem: [Looking at a photograph of the house at Lake George]
Poem: Lakes Learn from the Season
Poem: The Lake Has Swallowed the Whole Sky
Poem: Hangzhou, Lake of the Poets
Poem: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Poem: Nostalgia (The Lake at Night)