"Once" by Laura Kasischke
This poem is sparse, and I feel like I'm going to have to stretch on this one no matter where I take it, so bear with me.
In the poem, we have "falcons," but we've already established that Ms. Swift doesn't refer to birds all that often, so I can't find any parallels with that one. We have a shark's tooth necklace in the poem, and there are some necklaces in Taylor's songs, but no real solid matches with that. And we have the poem set in summer.
The line in the poem that's really causing some difficulty is, "Once (and only once) you / made me cry." There are a lot of references to crying throughout the catalog, but nothing is coming to mind where someone is only crying once. Hmm.
Taking it on the whole, the closest I can come up with is "august." Both the poem and the song are set in the summer, and of all the songs I can think of the story arcs in, this seems to be one of the only ones with a short-lived relationship. Possibly short enough that the narrator would only cry once? (Who am I kidding? When I think of this song, I think of a LOT of tears.) This, of course, excludes "Fortnight" and likely some others on TTPD, but I don't really see this linking with any songs on TTPD. I haven't convinced myself with this argument, but I can't come up with any better matches, so for now, this is the pick.
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