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an aquatic animal emerges from a straight meter-deep forest ditch
and goes to the nearby boundary marker thick with blueberries
its hands have atrophied from prolonged idleness
it cannot pick the berries
the animal turns back but cannot get into the ditch
the ditch has become shallow from below
it is as if not the water level had fallen but the ground level had risen
it goes back to the nearby boundary marker thick with blueberries
its hands still feeble and unaccustomed to work
it cannot pick the berries
the animal turns back but cannot get into the ditch
the ditch has become shallow from below
it goes back to the nearby boundary marker thick with blueberries
/Marts Pujāts/