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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Process
Crack
Cracks
Buried
Surrender
Seeds
Instant
Open
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