12 July 2014

Branches

the branches hung heavy
with fruit
still reach for the
sky

sun and storming clouds
seen through their
jagged fingers, the
fruits bruised by
their drop to the earth--
she tried to catch
them all

but cannot, those fruits,
thickly sweet,
savored by a hum of insects
or shrunken by the sun
into a wizened face

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