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Poetry: Gardening

Planting Dahlias

Earth, warm under my spade
brings forth worms
vying for squatter rights

pushing them aside
I drop
visions of summer

dinner plate dahlias
raising their faces
and snubbing last years
Christmas tree, now compost

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