for lorn umber
color folk its
yellow yolk
its brown yoke
between two farm animals:
a thousand were kings
philosophy mined
their pigment their sound
their names made or found
foreign graft unwound
live stock culture
it took between
to make same:
whole of piece
yes of no
a word is their child


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