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In the days of the end before it had arrived in its entirety

I found a penny and took a picture of it balanced on the edge of my coke can

I intended to send it

but never did.


Nothing

and everything

Just sitting there.


Now months later,

a penny

a hawk in the sky

the call of a distant place.


I am always one to find a way out

Crafting home in a metaphoric sense 

Can’t lose it, that way.


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