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Nine horses
On the cover of a new book of poems
nine horses are set in three lines of three.
They seem each to be out of breath somehow
as if triggering nine strings to nine cameras
in an antique attempt to prove that, even at the gallop,
horses keep one hoof on the ground.
John Bailey
Somerset, October 2002
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