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On the hill my horses sleep,
seven mares on their sides
stretched out in the sun.
Mares never lie down all together, always
post a sentinel to alert them
to predators. But mine
ooze down into their fat
noon naps, mouths open,
lips twitching over tombstone teeth,
oblivious to the yowling hills,
the crisp March wind and me.
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