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A nother [rare for me] snap, this: Makars--Makers of Poetry 'knowledge made memorable' Old English riddlers 'well set up, stand in a bed, have a roughish root' their word-hoard hears blowing branches a catch in the swan's neck a top cloud throwing wisdom to weathered men, sharp-eyed ponderers of nature's needs, political turns all must know the old the ships and oars and leaving wife on the rock who turns sharp, dry-eyed pulls carrots and fear from the earth none can be blind to heroes' sacrifices or unborn babies die and die until they come to term through a knowing womb how to give, how to hear, how to see how to tell the trestles of listening folk who plow and dig, who turn the earth back to a new seed ---------------- jbprince