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The Dead Nest: Cantos LVII-LXV

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Jun 18, 2026
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The Dead Nest: Cantos LVII-LXV

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

LVII

Fine the feet which crossing trod,
Fair of flesh, and free of clod,
On that patch, and free of smirch
Was their skin, though gloomy birch
And shedding pine, maples snapped,
Cloven oaks which creaking rapped,
They wandered through in a vale
Where the livin…

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