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  "path": "/article/207511/blackwater",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-19T10:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://newrepublic.com",
  "tags": [
    "Magazine",
    "Poetry",
    "April 2026"
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  "textContent": "She leads him down between walls of water.\nThe pattern of their steps, sooner or later, will make\nthe shape of a hare. This might take the rest of his life.\n\nHer song is of falling water, of bare night. Saltwife,\nshe leads him to where light breaks across the flood.\nTheir other selves are here, shaped and shed by water,\n\nboneless, shadowless, mouths agape as if in grief, as if\nin prayer; in a new understanding of grief and prayer.\nA slow press of sorrow is building at his back\n\nlike bad weather: chances lost, love as token, the waste\nof days. It is a place of narrows and steeps, of rising mist.\nNow she has hold of him, and leads him down.",
  "title": "Blackwater"
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