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28.
What hedges do is hard to tell.
Some are listed in the Doomsday Book.
Hedges are about lives
Not quite in view.
He cut his hand on electric hedge clippers
His flesh
Not rose petals. Hedges are themselves
Scars, metaphors, a wistfulness
For Eden, nostalgia, a backing
Into the future. We might hedge
Our bets with reveries and work
On land and time like a green river.