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Fence Line

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That Captain Kidd scribbling of rock in the fields     yellowed bristle of pages     back of a farm where     piratical breaking of land knocks     clean holes in the soil,     gypsy dancers vernal growth before     a spy-glass hour moon.     And black print smudged     on a thumb, a child's glossary of tales     thick with terror     before the faceless wretch     crawls for grog,     his peg-leg     in step with     one part of my brain     Old Phew hardly     any Smee from Peter Pan     but the holocaust    -     the raven in the tree     eyeing the baby Treasure Island,     that fledgling reason     butchering both nostrils     at the skunk cabbage whose nectar     is the prize of cemeteries     & wild reunion of the bees.

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