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Jagged Wire

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A rail fence is more than that on a country dawn         moving by lots over hill & stone;         it barely pauses in the small of the field's lap,         then is caught in grey positioning as         light unfurls the sky.         All is a matter of perfect blistering -         dauber wasps are seen to heave the moistened wood         in chunks to mossy furrows, benign         in their firm embrace upon alabaster trees.         There, crusts of heavy nails, marked         like fortresses, droop in their rusty mail.         Mostly ants, in open canter, move         in as upon an urn & lance far more         than jagged wire the breath of stillest air.

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