Mint Tokens

I trust in you to know what I meant
though all I gave you was a mere token.

A teabag full of faded peppermint
shares my pocket with an old subway token.

When the field is cleared and the herbs are taken
they sell mulch made from the remains of mint.

The fairground is littered with discarded tokens,
edged with the fragrance of trampled mint.

You won't spend more than a precious minute
contemplating the road not taken

and yet hope springs like summertime mint
around every real or imagined token.

Like moonshine dreams of commercial tokens
brand-new quarters roll out of the mint.

--for Big Tent's odd word-couple prompt. I got "mint" and "token" from Watch Out 4 Snakes' random word generator.
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