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The Wind begun
to knead the
Grass -
As Women do a
Dough -
He flung a
Hand full at the
Plain -
A Hand full at
the Sky -
The Leaves unhooked
themselves from Trees -
And started all
abroad -
The Dust did
scoop itself like
Hands -
And throw away
the Road -
The Wagons quick -
ened
on the Street -
The Thunders gossiped
low -
The Lightning showed
a Yellow Head -
And then a livid
Toe -
The Birds put up
the Bars to Nests -
The Cattle flung
to Barns -
Then came one
drop of Giant Rain -
And then, as if
the Hands
That held the
Dams - had parted
hold -
The Waters Wrecked
the Sky -
But overlooked
my Father's House -
Just Quartering
a Tree -
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