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<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;font-variant:small-caps">little flower</span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"> </span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"> </span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">preoccupied with finance &
theater</span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">else with ordinary vessels</span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">a cup or can or shoe</span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"> </span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">in a field of rye where the
question</span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">which is most beautiful</span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">is obsolete</span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"> </span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">in its own myth</span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">cured in the malevolent fact of
thinking</span></p>

<p class="" style="margin-right:58.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">crushed into a whole</span></p>

<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;font-variant:small-caps"> </span></b></p>

<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;font-variant:small-caps"> </span></b></p>

<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;font-variant:small-caps"> </span></b></p>

<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;font-variant:small-caps"> </span></b></p>

<p class=""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;font-variant:small-caps"> </span></b></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;font-variant:small-caps">in the very eye of night</span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"> </span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"> </span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">the owl in the wood</span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">or the word</span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">in the wood</span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"> </span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">the work</span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">of the world </span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">& the work</span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">of the word</span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"> </span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">the owl in the world </span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">or the woman</span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">in the owl</span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"> </span></p>

<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">bells<a name="_GoBack"></a></span></p>

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<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Garamond">C.
Violet</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Garamond"> Eaton </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Garamond">is the editor of <i>Bestoned</i>, a hand-sewn journal of new metaphysical verse. As <i>Dowser</i>, he occasionally dispatches small
editions of 'hill drone' recordings from secret locations throughout Arkansas,
where he also sells rare books. Recent work is available or forthcoming from <i>Yalobusha Review</i>, <i>Aufgabe</i>, <i>Cannibal</i>, and <i>Colorado Review</i>.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>


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