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She cleaned house and then lay down long	B
On the long stair	C
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On one of those cold white wings	D
That the strange fowl provide for us like one hillside of the sea	E
That cautery of snow that blinds us	F
Pitiless light	G
One winter afternoon	H
Fair near the place where she sank down with one wing broken	I
Three friends and I were caught	J
Stalk still in the light	G
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Five of the lights Why should they care for our eyes	K
Five deer stood there	C
They looked back a good minute	L
They knew us all right	G
Four chemical accidents of horror pausing	M
Between one suicide or another	N
On the passing wing	M
Of an angel that cared no more for our biology our pity and our pain	O
Than we care	C
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Why should any mere multitude of the angels care	C
To lay one blind white plume down	P
On this outermost limit of something that is probably no more	Q
Than an aphid	R
An aphid which is one of the angels whose wings toss the black pears	S
Of tears down on the secret shores	T
Of the seas in the corner	N
Of a poet s closed eye	U
Why should five deer	V
Gaze back at us	F
They gazed back at us	F
Afraid and yet they stood there	C
More alive than we four in their terror	N
In their good time	W
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We had a dog	X
We could have got other dogs	Y
Two or three dogs could have taken turns running and dragging down	P
Those fleet lights whose tails must look as mysterious as the	Z
Stars in Los Angeles	A2
We are men	B2
It doesn t even satisfy us	F
To kill one another	N
We are a smear of obscenity	E
On the lake whose only peace	C2
Is a hole where the moon	H
Abandoned us that poor	D2
Girl who can t leave us alone	E2
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If I were the moon I would shrink into a sand grain	O
In the corner of the poet s eye	U
While there s still room	F2
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We are men	B2
We are capable of anything	M
We could have killed every one of those deer	V
The very moon of lovers tore herself with the agony of a wounded tigress	C2
Out of our side	G2
We can kill anything	M
We can kill our own bodies	C2
Those deer on the hillside have no idea what in hell	H2
We are except murderers	C2
They know that much and don t think	I2
They don t	E
Man s heart is the rotten yolk of a blacksnake egg	J2
Corroding as it is just born in a pile of dead	K2
Horse dung	L2
I have no use for the human creature	N
He subtly extracts pain awake in his own kind	M2
I am born one out of an accidental hump of chemistry	E
I have no use	C2
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But	L
We didn t set dogs on the deer	V
Even though we know	N2
As well as you know	N2
We could have got away with it	O2
Because	C2
Who cares	C2
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Boissevain who was he	E
Was he human I doubt it	O2
From what I know	N2
Of men	B2
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Who was he	E
Hobbling with his dry eyes	C2
Along in the rain	O
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I think he must have fallen down like the plumes of new snow	N2
I think he must have fallen into the grass I think he	E
Must surely have grown around	P2
Her wings gathering and being gathered	Q2
Leaf string anything she could use	C2
To build her still home of songs	C2
Within sound of water	N
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By God come to that I would have married her too	R2
If I d got the chance and she d let me	E
Think of that Being alive with a girl	S2
Who could turn into a laurel tree	E
Whenever she felt like it	O2
Think of that	T2
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Outside my window just now	U2
I can hear a small waterfall rippling antiphonally down over	N
The stones of my poem	V2

James Arlington Wright

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