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Field of Eyes: A Poem

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May 05, 2026
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Field of Eyes

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Fleshy is the field of eyes,
Where the adder sneaking vies
With the buzzard for the root
Of the tender finger-shoot,
And the farmer with his hoe
Blindly hacks the hair-ripe row.

Seed with skull-bone, feed with flesh,
In the fall zombies will thresh,
With their hooked and combing cla…

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