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12 Poems

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Gold

The sun is an old coin

falling into peat.

An aureole sneaks

around hare’s ears.

She lowers them

and folds into grass

but lifts her nose

to the quiet light.

His eyes burn with

after images of gold.

The farmer turns

his gun away.