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Not Swivelling Away
You can set it all against the turning of the year's cycle,
The soft shapes of twilight, the brilliance of day,
The lone corncrake in the marsh,
The fog-borne flock of fleeing geese,
Because it has no care for you.
If the world gives you any value, you are fortunate,
For this much it knows and will not forget -
There must be a sacrifice, the blood spilt on the leaf,
In tracks in the snow, under the brushwood,
Along the fence line of the field.
There's a raven's cry, a fox's bark, the sagging
Struggle, the turns of the eating and the eaten,
Succumbing, triumphing, staying the execution
Or just waiting, waiting, hovering, hiding - all in the eyes,
Staring, not blinking, not swivelling away.
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