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GEO-BESTIARY: 1 by JAMES HARRISON

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First Line: I CAN HEAR THE COW DOGS SLEEPING
Last Line: NOT ONE DAY CLONES ITSELF.
Subject(s): SILENCE;
I can hear the cow dogs sleeping
in the dust, the windmill's
creak above thirty-three
sets of shrill mating birds.
The vultures fly above the corrals
so softly the air ignores them.
In all of the eons, past and future,
not one day clones itself.



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