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Yellow Goblins

By Fanny Howe
Yellow goblins
and a god I can swallow:

Eyes in the evergreens
under ice.

Interior monologue
and some voice.

Weary fears, the
usual trials and

a place to surmise
blessedness.

Source: Poetry (July/August 2013)
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