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Instructions for Climbing and Descending
Good foot goes to heaven; bad foot goes to hell. When every step torments and pain is chronic, you can’t do as you did before you fell and sprained...
On Hesperus at Confession
When Hesperus was making his confession of sins, according to the sacred rite, the careful priest explored his conscience, asking questions on every kind of sin he might have...
Reaping the Wind
The giants swing their triple arms or poise, frozen like hazmat signs, on every hill: alien prayer wheels of unending noise or monuments to birds and bats they kill;...