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Indelible of breast and wing,
He is a period between
The sentences of winter and
The broken syntax of the spring.

He punctuates the seasons, these
With postures; sitting, comma, colon,
And flying far about the swollen
Summer a clear parenthesis.

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The swallow, by the evening light

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