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Snowy Egret<\/span><\/p>\n

A late summer night and the snowy egret
has come again to the shallows in front of my house<\/span><\/p>\n

as he has for forty years.
Don\u2019t think he is a casual part of my life,<\/p>\n

that white stroke in the dark.

Mary Oliver<\/a>
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