a donkey drowned
in the sacred spring
they had to find a
new spring of course
with the requisite hawthorn
now it gets the wish-notes
for safe journeys, cured cats
both big folk and wee folk have
no trouble switching allegiance
but the ancient spring,
might it be lonely
2023 Jacqueline Jackson
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