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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhwIrONyEzg&ab_channel=JahBushi

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balestra -

fleche -

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With the right eyes, one could tell who was winning

Solely by the motions of their feet.

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 parer - reprise -

redoublement -

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You could tell, because one pair was fluid,

Paced a wide

Quarter circle, paused,

Counter rotated.

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And the other pair, well,

The other pair stuttered.

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riposte.

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When he fell, I watched his life

Pool into the footprints

That they'd laid 

Into the dewy texture of the grass …

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Glad, that I'd kept my eyes 

At their feet

In the exact moment 

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That I had.

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