Prospecting
Though shoulders
burn, and
my heart runs
on empty,
Let me mine hope --
nascent and lacking
magnetic north --
from this day --
As flecks of gold
appearing dull
fill my river pan
of sifted silt.
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Martha T. Terrell
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