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The Gathering Of Dead Wood

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The gathering of dead wood - driven,     pinched in faces between     the strain of Van Gogh's setting -     had all the more realism     hastening down that leaden street.     Churning sockets, burdened with the duress of suffering,     the street in vigorous winter     raced like a bootblack     up from the river. Hedged by     black stems called trees, rows     of withered houses and dim bread shops     propositioned rough headlights     along a promenade of ice stalks     and careening streetlamps.     Fast in the cold,     faces were juggernauts     skating treacherously     over the pond of that closed city.

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