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Autumn leaf girl

That rockmelon moon

Leant to a smile

A girl, leaf brown

Fell from a tree

From limbs with mouths

That age old gnarl

Turned yellow eve, russet, sun lost

Spiralled down to holes and with 

The endless shape

Of clasped hands  

In her soughing, see-saw breath

From the morning, scattered

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Published March 30, 2021By C S Hughes
Categorized as Poems Tagged autumn, leaf, naive poems

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