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The knife sharpener

Sean Lause

A sharp blade’s edge
will sing vibration like a word
under the sway of her steady hands,
within whose grasp
such ancient learning lives.

She whistles, presses the pedal
as if playing an organ.
The wheel and the earth turn
to her song of metal on stone,
and the birds become the voice of trees.

She guides the knife in her reflection
until sparks overflow the wind.
The sun’s blaze refines to a purity
down the cool edge of blue steel,
and the zodiac turns the menagerie of fate.

She strops the blade to a fine shine,
checks the edge shape with a careful eye,
then tests its power on an apple,
slicing it neatly in halves, and tempted,
takes one half in one firm bite.

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