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The cracking spine

of favorite poems

... winter strains, March rains.

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Circus of spring

popping and bursting

peeling and flying

the names of the new

... names of the dead.

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Autumn road
lost in the turned pages
... of summer.

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Fall rain, fall
to one ... last
... buttercup.

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The failing leaves
old flannel covers
... falling lovers.

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Cobwebs and acorns
a dusty windowsill
... unopened letters.

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To old fall
another fall
... of Falling alders.

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Forgotten web
the fraying tethers
... of summer.

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The loving seasons
of two lovers
... 'til only seasons remain.

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Sunrise in the forest
summer steps closer
... to the edge of endings.

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Now, fey of summer
secreting in these dry earths
... memories of spring.

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Things grievous:
every season's end
... that end of season.

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Things ancient:
dragonflies busy with sunset
... lusty meadows.

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Holy forest
the unmarked graves
... of seasons.

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Dandelion towers
through some few skeletons
... of autumn.

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Come rains
who know the much of me
... to know that much again.

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Crows, birds preparing
warnings of endings
... they've seen this before.

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Watching her
as though season ...
always written to reveal.

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(Inspired by Andi at Flickr)

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Tender always
the barren moon
for swells of season.

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I could quit but clover
again pushes green, deep and free -
What'd I expect?

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