<span>being killed by falling into a hole
He says, "another step before my fall.." implying he would have fallen to his death had he taken another step forth</span>
<span>"Counting Small-Boned Bodies" is a short poem of ten lines and, as its title suggests, plays upon official body counts of dead Vietnamese soldiers. The poem's first line, "Let's count the bodies over again," is followed by three tercets, each of which begins with the same line: "If we could only make the bodies smaller." That condition granted, Bly postulates three successive images: a plain of skulls in the moonlight, the bodies "in front of us on a desk," and a body fit into a finger ring which would be, in the poem's last words, "a keepsake forever." One notes in this that Bly uses imagery not unlike that of the pre-Vietnam poems, especially in the image of the moonlit plain.</span>
the federal level enjoys supremacy. the national government enjoy sovereign power
the state federal or local level maintains authority depending on the policy area
Supremacy I believe but I’m not sure, this is what I got and found hope this is helpful, if it’s not, I’m sorry, I tried tho.
