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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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