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I.
He is a carpenter who squares everything up
before saying
wall, floor, roof, house,
stores dreams, shining screws, in a box.
Careful, he drafts plans, saves for a rainy day.
His canvas apron bulges with disappointments
like so many nails, always at hand.
II.
She asks only for some true shape,
as when four crows pose equidistant, black
quadrangle in the rain. Heads bob, beaks peck
for worms, contrapuntal. The lawn is impossibly
green. She waits behind a window, thinks, there is some plan in this.
III.
Foil paper on the sidewalk is junk, discarded
wrapper from a cigarette box. Or a silver crane,
origami between flights.
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