Hill Station

4

Warm droppings
on the pony trail; coins
tossed over the pine
railing ricochet across
the stones.

Silver and gold.

Tin and copper

Mine: meaning, 
belonging to me.

Or, wounds
made deep in the earth
because of the longing
for beauty—

That deeper
wound.

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