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nictitate

(v): briefly shut the eyes
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2 months ago reesetee said:

Hmm. That would be far easier than actually doing the heavy lifting myself....

2 months ago yarb said:

Or you could just watch while I work on my quotational mega-project over the next two months.

2 months ago reesetee said:

Oh! Must check out his works, then. :-)

2 months ago yarb said:

Exactly - that's the subject. Birds and ornithology are very common in Reading's poems, especially his later work (e.g. 2002's Faunal).

2 months ago reesetee said:

Like birds. :-)

2 months ago yarb said:

Slowly, nictitating membranes
squeeze across dull-bloomed sclerotics.

- Peter Reading, At Home, from Diplopic, 1983

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