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Stravinsky's Firebird,         Debussy's La Mer         lilting arrangement like a windmill         with a little Hottentot of a bird         scurrying over leaves         like hot coals,         nest a pudding arrangement,         oven-shaped,         dappled with a string.         She is alternatively         lady of the green shoots,         Empress of an Andes of twigs         for this cow-pie upended         between trees         is fortress and manor,         blockhouse and Maginot Line         careening between the branches         much as a sloth         toe ambles         across the roof of a forest         gingerly stepping on noise,         clinging to velvet footpads,         sitting between shadows         within the roar of a clearing.

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