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Rated: GC · Book · Writing · #1543433
Poems and prose written between March 20th, 2009-2010
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#646511 added April 27, 2009 at 12:17pm
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166.40 Horse chestnuts
Horse chestnuts

         for those of us without children

What flowers red or pink or white hide beneath these tight soft tips
where five-fingered fronds unfurl from sticky buds this spring.
Come summer whose nuts will hang, encased sea urchins,
when dropped are gathered, planted by grey squirrels.
On a shadowed branch where bare of fruit I go unnoticed by them all,
my leaf, that nourishes this chestnut, 's precious till this autumn's fall.

© 2009 Kåre Enga [166.40] 2009-04-21
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