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The Shrike Tree. I just read for the first time just now,. But still am seeing it. Impossible now to forget it. If a poem 's images can pierce, these do.
I like Huntington’s first line beginning and ending with verbs.
Today’s theme is thought provoking & good for cultivating compassion.