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170 LISTEN HERE GIVING THE SUN from Women and Children First (1976) Having readied our instrument (a cardboard box, white paper taped inside, two pinholes) we lead the children warily into the unexpected twilight. Not looking up, we are aware of a great absence. Its chill silences the jays. We show each child the obscured sun in camera obscura. See: I give you the sun in a boxa small love inside four walls. THE HOLE from Women and Children First At nine I dug a hole behind the rabbit hutch, four feet across and getting deeper. I didn't want to find China, only to dig in. Every red shovelful unmade Alabama. Squatting in the clay chalice its tight horizon all mine I drank the sky, the sky drank me. Between my toes I felt dirt quiver, felt an hour-glass running suck me through earth's center out onto a blue beach. It never happened. So how did I get here on the other side of the world, my childhood under my feet? ...

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