<div class="line">The eye appeared in the sky one early</div>
<div class="line">Afternoon. At first many people blamed</div>
<div class="line">Atmospherics, roiled air in the surly</div>
<div class="line">September heat. Later weathermen claimed</div>
<div class="line">The arched lid, serene blue iris were quirks</div>
<div class="line">Not of nature but of the mind while late-</div>
<div class="line">Night evangelists saw the ends of works</div>
<div class="line">And days and told us how much to donate.</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">But still the eye gazed down upon our globe.</div>
<div class="line">Telescopes were focused. The pope implored</div>
<div class="line">God for forgiveness. NASA sent a probe.</div>
<div class="line">George Harrison re-released “My Sweet Lord.”</div>
<div> </div>
<div class="line">Then the Oscar Awards aired on NBC</div>
<div class="line">And everyone went inside to watch TV.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/SnydalEye.mp3"></audio></figure>

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<p class="author"><span style="color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: revert;">When Norman sent me for the cows</span></p>
<div class="line">I couldn’t bring them in. They stood</div>
<div class="line">As if they had all day to browse</div>
<div class="line">The short grass down, as if they could</div>
<div class="line">Graze all the way to China. When</div>
<div class="line">I hollered, some of them would swing</div>
<div class="line">Their huge heads round and stare and then</div>
<div class="line">They’d swish and stamp and blink to bring</div>
<div class="line">My eight years into focus. Damn!</div>
<div class="line">I had to go and get the dog.</div>
<div class="line">And everything I think I am</div>
<div class="line">Still sees them file out of the bog</div>
<div class="line">Down by the stockpond, up the hill,</div>
<div class="line">Back to the barn, the dog behind,</div>
<div class="line">And I behind the dog. I still</div>
<div class="line">Remember how he made them mind.</div>


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