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surface</image:title><image:caption>Photo by Em  Hopper on &lt;a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/glittering-gold-stars-on-bright-surface-33228105/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Pexels.com&lt;/a&gt;</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-12-15T12:49:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://amethystmagazine.org/2025/12/14/grapple-a-poem-by-mary-baca-haque/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://amethystmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/pexels-photo-6029908.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>sunrays beaming through trees</image:title><image:caption>Photo by Lillian Katrine Kofod on &lt;a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/sunrays-beaming-through-trees-6029908/" 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