Cleaning Out the Gutters

Jeffrey Levine

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Even starlight needs work. I hire out, a little light, a little warmth,
a few odd jobs. But who wants to hoist the wooden ladder
against the clapboard siding to clean the copper gutters?
They apron her house at the eaves above like an inner ring of Saturn,
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