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MY NIGHTHAWK

Up busily night-watching
our tree-top boulevard,
cry in her throat the sum
of a thousand sleepless hours,
a lifetime's loneliness,

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The glossary

From aubade to zuihitsu, 207 definitions of the forms, figures, and schools that shape the line.