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TWELVE HOURS DISTANT

My daughter's smile
Is twelve hours distant
But home
Is as close as the doors of sleep.

There is grass in my Japan
Because I planted it:
Not for the passing day
But for a life.

In the catalog of futures
We are three.

Copyright © 2005 Hugh Cook

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