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Feather & Down.(Poem)
FEATHER & DOWN Sleep comes floating towards us nightly, shipping we cannot avoid. With luck, we negotiate its unloading from a position of animal warmth--luxury, nothing less. I find myself thanking anonymous ducks, feather-shielded bundles of flesh-all-weather pontoons bobbing about under a summer sky; or revved-up like ...
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