Leaves

Leaves

six

feet

under

requires

more

than

a

shovel

it

can

take

decades

to

dig

out

the

dirt

to

get

to

the

bone

by

then

the

skin

is

gone

like

a

tree

in

the

cold

nothing

left

but

branches

bare

were

it

not

for

the

memory

of

Spring

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