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Raking the Disappearing
October 23, 2013
Leaves stiff, crispy, dripping
Down from the trees.
Gathering, sending them
Away to their undefined piles.
The numbing pain tackles my body.
I can feel the exhaustion
Crawl to my body, trying not to make me look.
The fresh, damp
New leaves being left
Right on our doorstep by
Our greeting man FALL.
Up in the sky beyond the point of me even seeing
The birds are chirping through the trees,
As loud as a cats whisper.
As the rake’s teeth indulge the
Crispy brown flakes and are
Never seen again.
© Erica H., Wilmington, DE
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