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        • altering the extension phase
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        • introduction to vertical nets and tennis nets
        • learning to weave the vertical net
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        • reproducing a weave artificially
        • simple braided three loop figures
        • a circle notation for recording loop passages
        • the 4 loop tennis net
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        • cherokee 7 stars in a 4 loop environment
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        • murphy’s du fu von zach IX
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        • murphy’s li tai bo von zach XXV
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        • a small story of one chinese poem
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rattlesnake nest

a dull color of sleet on my face
a man needs a collection of tools
hands creep their time, it is always now
grilled octopus      retsina and cheese
i met an old lady at the subterranean bar
it’s all there perfect with you and your friends
memory is a fragile sense in modern times
mist of morning      dark hot coffee
rainbow westward      ache of color
the sacred heart of all i am
the sound it is which lulls the thought
they would just bubble up
we think differently with our hands writing with a pen
words are specific delimiters in their snake trail
working through the fog
the rumbling thunder
the insects are banished from my sheltered cave
the dime of death short stops us all
the fug of tobacco tastes the room
i’ve come to the time of departure
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