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By Jack Joseph Smith

From The Bay Window It is coming on where Easter will be And there the boy with the school book Chases the rabbit along the stilled snow hill at the slope and suddenly stops, while the rabbit begins to cirele And from a cluster of shrubs,, well you see/it knows it's own shadow The boy has noticed and so sits on his haunches And thusly begins to bid without cumming in his mannor; it is so catching that the rabbit is many times whiter than the snow it is playing on And there the rabbit approashes, appears to be coming toward empty, almost folded hands

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GPT

From the bay window near Easter, a boy with a school book and a circling rabbit enter a wary courtship in snow, shadow, and almost folded hands.

The rabbit circling on the snow hill feels less like prey than like a creature testing the boy's worth. When the boy sits on his haunches and bids without cunning, the scene shifts from chase to invitation. The rabbit coming toward empty, almost folded hands gives the whole exchange a near-sacramental suspense.

Claude

A fuller redrafting of the bay-window scene, now with a 'school book' and the inserted aside 'well / you see/it knows it's own shadow.' The boy 'sits on his haunches / And thusly begins to bid without cumming / in his mannor,' and the bidding is 'so catching' that 'the rabbit is many times whiter / than the snow it is playing on.' It comes toward 'empty, almost folded / hands' - the verb 'folded' turning the open palms toward something close to prayer or surrender.