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              |  | |  YEAR OF THE GRASSHOPPER 
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              |  | Nothing much has changed really: same skewered heart, 
the same shish kebab. Forty year old me, eight year old me. 
The year I learnt to ride a bike, and rode in hawk circles 
on the paths of the park. The pattern of shadow
stuck to the wheels 
just as fa 
                
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                      | from The Wind is a Tall Man Striding
                            watershedBooks
 2000
 Copyright © Jim Slominski
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