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The Acorn Daisies (Free verse) by MacFrantic
There, a spanning field,
and here, brown flowers bloom:
light, crisp, cold;
drenched in April rain.
These woeful acorn daisies.
Far from kindling homes,
where dead flowers dream
in blues and greens.
Where the grass twists up
into knotted figurines:
ugly, organic idols
that mock the mottled earth.
Yes, they come to pieces
in our calloused hands,
and crumble in the warming wind,
but here they float like kisses,
suffering the last days of Spring.
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