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Aspire
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41 Aspire August, and a lash of gnats is certain, prophesied. Corn and wheat realize their ambition, while hands twist, harvesting, through fields. Gnats and heat and work songs engorge the clotted air. Horses wear straw hats and join tree-shaded whipmen. Everything they do is done with the sanctioned ease of the master’s favorite pup. The horses are absurd with laughter as they watch the harvest’s progress. One summer dawning Shad will not rise. The vermin and heat will light around him, the chant of the tedious season will mark time, but he will be still in the cool clay of his cabin. All he wants to be: still. ...