Barbara Kingsolver has a poem called How to Shear a Sheep. To shear a sheep the poet suggests the best thing to do would be to go to the shed at dawn and take all your clothes off. Lay them down, she says, your nylon jacket, your woollen socks. Stand before the sheep, naked and needy. She then suggests you might sin…
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