Have
Been
Talking

In your
Silence.

—

She warned
Me not to
Grieve
Beautiful
Gardens
Cycling
through
Seasons.

—

I admired
Your Bloom
and Decay,

Thinking
You could
Hold off
Your Fall

4 Another-
Year-or, so.

—

Thirty
years
In the
Mid-
West

Did Not
Prepare
Me for
—-You.

—

Your Nature

so Cruel &

Necessary…

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