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Crowd corralling

Margaret Avison
From:   No Time. Hantsport: Lancelot Press, 1989. p.101


Hard rain.
the bean-mash smell.
leaky tin-brim spill.
grass-soak:

birds clotted in big trees.
Cotton people in go-holes:

uncontrollable beautiful
sheepdogging skypower!



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