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Squarings? In the game of marbles, squarings
Were all those anglings, aimings, feints and squints
You were allowed before you'd shoot, all those
Hunkerings, tensings, pressures of the thumb,
Test-outs and pull-backs, re-envisagings,
All the ways your arms kept hoping towards
Blind certainties that were going to prevail
Beyond the one-off moment of the pitch.
A million million accuracies passed
Between your muscles' outreach and the space
Marked with three round holes and a drawn line.
You squinted out from a skylight of the world.
SQUARINGS: I Lightenings iii
from "Seeing Things"
by Seamus Heaney
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