Oyster Boy Review 16  
  Winter 2002
 
 
 
 
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Poetry


Adjusted Outcome

Robert West


What startled me
more

than the squirrel's
nest

crashing limb by
limb

down the old
oak

catching at last
on

the lowest was
how

it gathered its
disarray

into an owl
and

retook the difficult
heights.