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Summer 2002 • Vol. XXIV No. 3/4 • Poetry |

Pieces of Eight

So often treasure is tiny coins 
sayings with a petit range 
hardly worth recording. 

Break down a big task into bits 
like food chewed slowly. 
Be constant to a tiny timetable 

no one else will notice you're achieving. 
Or: every little bit counts: the 
single weed lifted as you walk.

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