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Rated: E · Poetry · Death · #566732
Contemplating a child's loss
Autumn Elegy

I walk with her today
under solemn trees
whose suppliant branches
fracture autumn sky.

Child I did not know,
your mother's grief-song
sings among the oaks,
their last leaves shaken.




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