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   I take off for the hills 
   where gulls circle 
   and soar in the thermals 
   as if caught 
   in the sky's blue plughole 
   when in fact 
   their flight's elan 
   where the nor'wester 
   flips off the ridges 
   and the tussock's 
   restless and shines 
   on the hillsides, 
   inland Otago's 
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