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Daffodils variations on an image from Michael O’Higgins Something is fettling in the summer heat smoothing into the crease of a muzzle whittling to the tip of an ear a long head raised underground looking to leap from year to year Something is bridling at the winter cold the stamp of a hoof in the hard earth the changle of a bit in the frost some deep chest drawn into harness when all impetus is lost 12

Something is pulling into the late spring neck upon neck bent to the shaft and the same sweat on every one the horse’s heads of gold that draw the chariot of the sun 13

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Daffodils variations on an image from Michael O’Higgins

Something is fettling in the summer heat smoothing into the crease of a muzzle whittling to the tip of an ear a long head raised underground looking to leap from year to year

Something is bridling at the winter cold the stamp of a hoof in the hard earth the changle of a bit in the frost some deep chest drawn into harness when all impetus is lost

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