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Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992. Born in Sri Lanka, he now lives in Toronto.
The first capturing your gaze into nowhere
the other when you covered your face with your hands
so you were not anonymous, only unseen
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