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    The document is a short poem titled "Telekinesis" by Melissa Kwasny. It is composed of a single paragraph that depicts various scenes and observations: someone buying a scarf and mentioning spring, willows, and dreams; snow geese rising and falling on a lake; shadows under hills proclaiming themselves as hills; worrying about a friend's unhappiness and feeling their symptoms from a distance; and a reference to a conversation from Samuel Beckett's novel where a son asks if the sky is further than it appears and is told no, it is precisely as far as it looks.

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    Telekinesis

    Author(s): Melissa Kwasny


    Source: Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, No. 48 (2011), p. 1
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    Telekinesis

    by Melissa Kwasny

    Over there, someone is buying a velvet scarf, pronouncing


    the words spring willow, dream. Over there, they are sleeping,
    the buds. White sash round the sky-blue waist of earth, glitterwater of the lake we have come to see. (How beautiful ' a student

    says to the visitor named green after the unseasonably dry and
    brown winter.) Phalanx after phalanx, the snow geese rise from

    the lake's sheen, then disappear as they hit the surface. The
    shadows under the hills each proclaiming I am hill. Relax. The
    land will greet each of us. The head will lift only so high. I am
    worried for you, my friend, who are not as happy as me. Your
    symptoms I can feel in the distance. How you stood in my yard

    long past the time I had gone to bed, looking up at the stars,
    which made you dizzy. The sky is further away than you think, is it

    not, mamai the son asks near the end of Beckett's novel, and the
    mother answers, devastatingly, no. It is precisely as far away as it
    appears to be.

    TELEKINESIS 1

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