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Dog grows onions in tub, rags hang from the uppers of a birch-bark shoe. Shoal of Baltic herring approaches the horizon – be on the lookout, thin moon, the distance looks like a magpie’s breast, the one with a sense for thaws and children who laugh – like me, like the one who is me.
What is white in a face, from there comes laughter, one grasps. Take the hoe, make holes in the ground, many long ones. I hear in there it murmurs before one hears other sounds. Lets some summer come, grass grow everywhere. Up on the hill, yes, I see you now. The ears, the eyes, the happy sprout of the tail, like something that is just beginning to grow. If you are sitting there, yes you are the one. Filling your breast. The one who coaxes out warmth and puts right wrong and reverse. You sit there, yes, now I see you, you lick me in the face, the face of my small spirit that must not become hard, must not harden.
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