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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1030637-No-Trespassing
Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2248076
A poem a day each April, for Katya the Poet's Dew Drop Inn
#1030637 added April 15, 2022 at 1:49pm
Restrictions: None
No Trespassing
There was a paper notice
protected by clear plastic
stapled to a birch's bark
at one edge of the woods

as if to give dire direction
to the chickadee dee dee
and any passing animals:
you cannot trespass here!

A wandering buck pauses
attending to a wicked itch
and pops out the staples
with his great rough rack

The paper, pierced through,
is stuck upon one antler;
he carries its grave news
from glen to swamp to path -

the forest's own P. Revere
whose message is ignored
and, simultaneously, caught
by chainsaw buzz & gunshot.



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