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What looks like a squawk
is to the ear a moth or
butterfly, clinging.

Karl Elder

This poem appears in Karl Elder's The Minimalist's How-to Handbook (Parallel Press, 2005,
the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System).
Karl Elder's most recent collection of poems is Mead: Twenty-six Abecedariums
(Marsh River Editions, 2005). His website is
here.