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زبان
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day,
Out through the fields and the woods
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
Gods of Poker
Love just knocked the door.
Back out of all this now too much for us,
The land was ours before we were the land’s.
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
I have been one acquainted with the night.
The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table