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This poem is taken from PN Review 43, Volume 11 Number 5, May - June 1985.

Nonpareil John Holloway

A thousand, ten thousand
   years take you back
beyond the invincible wheat,
   but not to another such

rarity, the pure note
   matchless as a blue
pearl, or any raindrop:
   integral
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