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October 24, 2013 Arts + Scene » Poetry

A quiet birth 

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The stiff-petaled cone
squats,
poised in a birdcage of dried needles.
Barbs, the size of small fish hooks,
fail
to capture the plump oval of seed
slipping from the womb of the tree.

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