knee



it is a great triumph
of
skill
to
gain the affections of the watchdog
from
the
mystery of
an eelpot

the schoolhouse being deserted soon fell
to the opposite

shore of the piazza

honest balt would sit with a
child on one knee and

rock a cradle with his clothes
bagging
and fluttering about him one might
have served

for
a bowl of punch and should
have won it too for daredevil
beat the goblin
horse all hollow but just
as
they came upon his
traces




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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