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A CELEBRATION OF LOSSES

 

 

To count them is pointless

celebrate? Why not?

they open me

like cutting open a piece of fruit

clear through

to the stone

bearing its heart to the elements

that it might grow

into a new

fruit-bearing tree

 

 

 

 

A CELEBRATION OF LOSSES

 

 

To count them is pointless

celebrate? Why not?

they open me

like cutting open a piece of fruit

clear through

to the stone

bearing its heart to the elements

that it might grow

into a new

fruit-bearing tree

 

 

 

 

A CELEBRATION OF LOSSES

 

To count them is pointless

celebrate? Why not?

they open me

like cutting open a piece of fruit

clear through

to the stone

bearing its heart to the elements

that it might grow

into a new

fruit-bearing tree

 

 

 

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