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    Jane Hirshfield

    Side by side

    Once, I

    Once, I

    Once, I

    Once, I
    was seven Spanish bullocks in a high meadow,
    sleepy and nameless.

    As-ifness strange to myself, but complete.

    Light on the neck-nape
    of time
    as two wings of one starling,

    or lovers so happy
    neither needs think of the other.
    © 2013, Jane Hirshfield
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    Once, I

    Once, I
    was seven Spanish bullocks in a high meadow,
    sleepy and nameless.

    As-ifness strange to myself, but complete.

    Light on the neck-nape
    of time
    as two wings of one starling,

    or lovers so happy
    neither needs think of the other.

    Once, I

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