| roughsawn poem |
| verbal stacks of sawmill words¶ |
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| of squarecut metered treated lengths¶ |
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| chosen for their knot-free lack of warp¶ |
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| and ends which have the grain the same¶ |
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| stacked up piles of word-lines ending rhymed or otherwise¶ |
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| are no more poetic than stacked logs trimmed and debarked are sculptural¶ |
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