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Ancestral Memory

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Patrician to my plebian,     aristocratic leaning versus     unbridled backwoods feeling    -     distinct Old World breeding     countering rudest colonial lean-to;     his carcass lay, roadworthy,     blinking back cold starlight     with all the forest as silent voyeur     stretching for a look,     black fur & quills     in disarray like Crazy Horse's warpaint     after the Big Horn,     this roughneck Canadian porcupine     shot clean with bumper & chrome.     Then little hedge-pig     quaint as porcelain china cup     half a world away     greeting pints of milk     in an English doorway     half his scalp torn thru     dirty, British lorry choking fumes     the petrol in its tank loose.

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