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So this one is called
"Archaeopteryx".

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Above the lawn, from
a high garden wall,

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they dive in
staggered succession--

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long gray coats, hoods
like Benedictine monks,

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the row so long I cannot
see to the last of them.

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A ceremony?

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A rehearsal for a ceremony?

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Maybe someone directs them.

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Even from that height, their
coats flare open with the fall.

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The updraft along their
cheeks catches the inside

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of their hoods, letting them
feel the first hint of loft

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as they dive--

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or not dive, but
fall with purpose--

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or if not purpose, intent--

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or if not intent, release--

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or if not release,
then surrender.

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What did I ever have to
surrender-- surrender

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to, or surrender from?

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They fall so fully
I can only guess

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there must be, at the end
of the fall, a pool and not

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this stone arcade where I
stand between these walls.

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Nothing in their
fall impedes them--

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not regret or expectation--
not even curiosity.

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They fall the way M walks--

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in her gait, sorrow
indistinguishable from joy.

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