Gardener Looming

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A magic hour past sunset:
all the blackbirds sing at once.

Did ever Shostakovitch write such
intricate quintets, while swifts
plow furrows of the sky?

The hedge is offering tenderest
roseate growing tips of thorn
to the idea of shears, brambles too
are tempting fate, leaning into space

that could catch and scratch
a blood-bead bracelet on our way
down past docks,
where dandelion clock armadas
better sail soon.

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