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That hour-glass-backed,

orchard-legged,

heavy-headed will,

 

paper-folded,

wedge-contorted,

savage—dense to kill—

 

pulls back on backward-moving,

arching

high legs still,

 

lowered through a deep, knees-reaching,

feathered down

green will,

 

antenna-honest,

thread-descending,

carpeted as if with skill,

 

a focus-changing,

sober-reaching,

 

tracing, killing will.

 

 

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