Out Like a Lamb

Inchworms and Acorns

Inchworm explorer
Measuring the universe
In veins of elm leaves

         Inchworm performer
         Death-defying acrobat:
         tight rope gymnastics

Inchworm imposter
posing for a portrait of
geometer moth

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Capped acorn priestess
self-containing prediction:
Black oak prophecy

         Somewhere in between
         autumn acorn's future form
         and oak's backward glance

Acorn in moonbeam
smoothly promises of oak,
overconfident.

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April 10—Free day—a topic or focus of your own choosing! (And this might be free verse, too! Or not! Exercise your free will!)