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The Spell.


Old tracks and blackberries, Tracks and flutes of grass, A boy among them on a bike Laughing through buckteeth.

The steeple broods Like a pregnant man Where spurred by summer He slips its gaze

And glides straight through The lock-step crowd As if earth herself Had shrouded shroud  
n.
1. A cloth used to wrap a body for burial; a winding sheet.

2. Something that conceals, protects, or screens: under a shroud of fog.

3.
a.
 him.

Peals PEALS Policy Ethics and Life Sciences (Research Institute, UK)  of rainfall Swell from the streetpipes; Underground the sewers Debouch de·bouch  
v. de·bouched, de·bouch·ing, de·bouch·es

v.intr.
1. To march from a narrow or confined area into the open.

2.
 on the narrow creek.

Spun from a wheel A spray of gravel Glimmers in whiteblack Drops. He crosses

And casually loops Script e's and l's Down to the school In which time seems to sleep.

Stone cuts the beveled bev·el  
n.
1. The angle or inclination of a line or surface that meets another at any angle but 90°.

2. Two rules joined together as adjustable arms used to measure or draw angles of any size or to fix a surface at an angle.
 sky; A fence infolds a field; Silence mirrors silence Rising in a wave.

He vaults the curb In a devil of wind To see the bike sail On the curtained glass;

Splits from himself Where the blacktop's smooth Then stops and turns Toward his mother's house.

Unblinking eyes ascend From earth on shadow wings; Roses blur blur (blur) indistinctness, clouding, or fogging.

spectacle blur  the indistinct vision with spectacles occurring after removal of contact lenses, especially non–gas-permeable lenses; it is
 in sunlight; The bodiless air rings.
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Author:Oser, Lee
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Date:Feb 28, 1997
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