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raze the sun was ancient
and summer our verdant dusk
cherry blossoms sighed secrets
bright by the riverbed
the sounds of our stride lost
to the murmur
of fingers braided
in anxious prayer
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ovenbird The cherry blossoms end as soon as they begin.
Leaves bully blooms from the branch.
My dog tracks sticky sepals up the stairs.
I pick bruised petals from the carpet.
Everything is falling.
We bend in fealty to a future that wears no clothes.
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