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the goldfinch thought
they could hide in them
while they enjoyed eating

their seeds

i watched them as if 
a sundial telling 
time again 

again and again 

and they clocked
me moving at less
than warp speed as

i watered everything

not just them but
the laborious fruits
that labored in a sun

the same sun

that
after
which

they were named
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