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An Oven Heart

Duck bites the moon Shining in a broken fence Escapes in fright For his peak is hurt As if struck in stone Spin a rush of pinched affections At the point where cotton grew From hands that picked it The sparrow bite a bead Tied in thread Severely choked up Neither he can swallow Nor vomit out; Flies away with long thread strung its heart About the branches in a wild Let me pull the splinter From your bite *

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