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Proto-dactyl

 

Shaman, wings yet moist with egg-white, groping shyly

Through the fog whose dampness beads between white feathers,

Vaporizing slowly through the humid wee-hours.

In the fog, the hollow wing-bone slowly stiffens.

Not long, muscles thickened up upon the back bones

Bunch, and start the wings to heaving in the grey mist.

 

Airborn. He has shed loose body from body.

 

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In Your Honor. Todd Jackson

 

Inspired by the dactylic pentameter, the meter of the Hymns.