A Palimpsest

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Whoever her consort was that night 
(it was in the old days before pronouns)
was feathered by her, or flowered.

In any case she was the hourglass,
narrow waisted, through which grains
suddenly gathered their small torrent:

one end provincial, her father’s 
farm. At the other, a future possibly 
enhanced, perhaps even exciting.

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