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Today’s Offering: Poetry

Clouds

Autum Spider

Billowed by breeze

two leaves dance,

kin on that fatal

final fall, flitter

loose, to float to what

awaits, a fine filament

where they tether to

spider’s death net,

await a whimsied breath

to end their reprieve.

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