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For Now How the zebra died in the mouth of the lioness after a brief struggle of the legs, and then the herd went back to feeding on the grass nearby while the lioness and her cubs knelt at the body as in worship and ate their fill. They were soon quiet and resting on their full bellies and looking steadily at the herd feeding itself with heads down to the grass, not minding the lioness or her cubs. It was a reassuring sight, that there was death and that it had its place among the living, and a time, and that time had passed for now. Two The steam hammer pounds with a regularityon steel I should envy. Neither the hammer nor the steel seems to be suffering from this terrible meeting between them, proving something vaguely pointed, that some things must be done, regardless of cost, and finally the cost too is absorbed in the doing that has become a ritual between two fated opponents. The Need He has come to the conclusion, walking between the empty lot and the stone heap, his armsfilled, that this is the life. Stones fall 740 | Poems of the 1980s ...

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