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Angel.


In the clamor of crows I hear my own voice

demanding to know if I'm nuts or just plain crazy

running alone through these woods,

mud puddles sucking sucking

the application of suction to an object by the mouth.


sucking drive
instinctive enthusiasm of the neonate to suck on a teat, or any object which even remotely resembles a teat.
 in my feet making it inconvenient in·con·ven·ient  
adj.
Not convenient, especially:
a. Not accessible; hard to reach.

b. Not suited to one's comfort, purpose, or needs: inconvenient to have no phone in the kitchen.
 

like getting lost, which I got

after walking by myself around the block

of an uncle's new home when I was a child.

A fact even now I'm still ashamed to admit,

yet when this uncle who was not a geometer

but an angel, wise albeit drunk,

came to get me waiting in a phone booth,

he said, Babycakes, a block ain't no parallelogram parallelogram, closed plane figure bounded by four line segments, or sides, with opposite pairs of sides parallel and equal in length. The rhombus, rectangle, and square are special types of parallelograms. ,

it's a goddamn god·damn also God·damn  
interj.
Used to express extreme displeasure, anger, or surprise.

n.
Damn.

tr. & intr.v. god·damned, god·damn·ing, god·damns
To damn.

adj.
 distance to overcome. Same is true

about the sky right now in the way the sun's

starting up behind the trees, unmasking a tiny figure

out of nowhere approaching, me veering toward

faint sounds of traffic, and wings overhead beating.
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Author:Tartt, Peggy Ann
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