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If this had been the extent of it--a folded box of exegesis, methodology and argument which was inclined to mm its back on The World--if this Brethrenism had followed its strongly dissenting character into a closed space, then I expect that the impulse, at about nineteen, to start writing poetry would likely have led me to a valley of decision: either to shut myself in with the faithful, or to repurpose my love of the Word as something less confessing, something more open to lyric and the lavishments of poetry, however that might have been.