Notes:

#4 line 3 Robin Williams

#5 American Indians of the Creek Nation. The references to endangered
     languages are taken from Spoken Here by Mark Abley

     line 7: Donald Hall, p.218, Old and New Poems

#8 Boro is spoken in north-eastern India and surrounding countries (ibid,
     Mark Abley)

#9 lines 2-3 Spalding Gray

#11 lines 7-8 ibid, Mark Abley

#13 lines 9-10 ibid, Mark Abley

# 14 Onsra from the Boro language (ibid, Abley)

        line 9-10 Harriet Rubin, Dante in Love, p.6

# 15 Jaru is an Australian aboriginal language (ibid, Abley)

# 17 lines 5-6 The Soul of Rumi, ed. Coleman Barks

# 18 line 3 Hegel

# 20 line 1 K. Louise Schmidt, Hannah and the Holy Fire

# 27 line 6 and #30 June Callwood, Canadian journalist and social
       activist, in a Globe and Mail interview, July, 2004.

# 32 line 2 May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

# 33 line 7 The Soul of Rumi, ibid

# 34 lines 7-8 Natalie Goldberg, Long Quiet Highway

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