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Coming Soon or Never

[how to chew a flower]

on the windowsill opposite to my house
a crow looks

at his loot—straws, stalks, petals rose as
rat tongues...

soon, he will measure each of them in the
vernier caliper

of his beak; they will slip through his nib
when he tries to

carry them along with the hazelnut—this
he knows

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