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Helen says heaven, for her,
would be complete immersion
in physical process,
without self-consciousness—
to be the respiration of the grass,
or ionized agitation
just above the break of a wave,
traffic in a sunflower’s thousand golden rooms.
from Mark Doty, Heaven for Helen