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Watermelon

Watermelon

what once

resembled

a tiny tree

in a pint-size pot

has grown not up

but out

covering a portion

of lawn

in vines

that “Jack in the Beanstalk”

could climb

had there been no boulder

and each day

the boulder gets

a bit bigger

bit broader

like a swelled head

that heard

every word

she ever said

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Published inTamiko Lowery