Kyoto

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gate

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The smallest one
has been given
the whole center.

Behind it,

more entrance
than there is
somewhere to enter.

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A path spends a threshold
by passing it.

Here,
nothing is spent
that way.

Each one already discharged
the promise it was raised for.

The debt is what crossed.

One is set down.
Then another behind it,
another behind that—

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 gate
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The front keeps getting smaller
without becoming
less first.

passage

placement

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