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Atlantis THREE TALES Samuel R. Delany

For

Iva Hacker-Delany,

John R. Keene, Jr.,

and

Dennis Rickett

All the little household gods

Have started crying, but say

Good-bye now, and put to sea.

Farewell, dear friend, farewell…

— W. H. AUDEN, “Atlantis”

The long shadow thrown from this single

obstruction to its own light!

Thought flies out from the old scars of the sea

as if to land. Flocks that are longings

come in to shake over the deep water.

It’s prodigies held in time’s amber

old destructions

and the theme of revival the heart asks for.

The past and future are

full of disasters, splendors

shaken to earth, seas rising to overshadow

shores and roaring in.

— ROBERT DUNCAN, “Atlantis”

Note to the reader

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