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13 Ojo del Pajaro On each feather, an eye. In each eye, a planetary mirror: the rings of Saturn, the spiral nebulae, Andromeda spun loose of the sky. Bird of wonder, this feathered gourd that can lift like light, can spin like a pinwheel held in the hand of a child, out a car window, on a bicycle, a child who watches the wedges whip in the ttlllllluuurrrrr of wind speech. Ttlllllluuurrrrr laughs this bird as it leaps from limb to lawn, bobs like a buoy in the channel of grass, rises like the Spruce Goose but, once airborne, leans long and limber into the high current, headed for the starry starry night. ...

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