I thought to instruct the birds--
now, wings bowed and bound
I'm sinking in the diminishment
of a skylark’s looney tune
Larking, loose-limbed and giddy
turning skycarts in the dappled sun
while I, enchanted, shrink
To a little pool of bedazzlement--
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