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Claire Potter

The Appeal of Cranes

The Appeal of Cranes

The Appeal of Cranes

wing opportunity
      to see impressed      in a wall
held     in special —

      priests severed      wing shape marriage
but which      a couple
     dancing in frieze      facing winter
tempting monogamy        appropriate a wedding

a ritual      connected to costume      destroyed
     (one wing, one cattle horn      deposition of materials
           origins     ancestry      Division,      of birds
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The Appeal of Cranes

wing opportunity
      to see impressed      in a wall
held     in special —

      priests severed      wing shape marriage
but which      a couple
     dancing in frieze      facing winter
tempting monogamy        appropriate a wedding

a ritual      connected to costume      destroyed
     (one wing, one cattle horn      deposition of materials
           origins     ancestry      Division,      of birds

The Appeal of Cranes

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