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spidery  (  a  p o e m  o f  s t u f  f  )

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solar storms & frozen lakes

clover swards & open gates

spilling sheep

& swilling sleep

soda bread & water snakes


reverie & quiver quakes

ebony & river drakes

quacking so

& flapping flow

nettle tea & shimmer shakes


lunacy & marble cakes

fluency & garden rakes

clearing paths

& smearing graphs

gallantry & canker brakes


golden finch & silver hakes

fingertips & crystal flakes

dusting on

& humming swan

phantom train & spectred crakes


underscores & undertakes

choral caws & middle eights

spurting forth

& gurning north

trickery & ticker tape


tapestries & stomach ache

sanity & double takes

misting eyes

& wisping whys

spidery & wide awake

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