Eleven

players on a soccer team
stars in Joseph’s second dream

odd reversible and prime
dimensions (counting space and time)

pipers piping salt (Na)
month day hour Veteran’s Day

goat’s hair curtains ripped apart
ounce-weight of the human heart

twelve less Judas David’s men
pearls and tears from Swinburne’s pen

heartbreak (on a scale of ten)

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