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#1035766 added November 12, 2022 at 3:07pm
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Buttercup Road
Glowing,           glimpsed
swaying   in a breeze
,   lone buttercup.
Your lengthy   neck          angles
,   flat-cropped,
yellow top  dares rival  a blue sky
that when black,
raged
,  poured down  on your flimsy head  —  sent low
amid sparse  weed that hard
- fought   gravel,
clasping an Angel   nourished
. Your  golden coat
shook glad dust 
 upon them.  As a brood, coexist,
nestle  on a solemn
,  jagged roadonce
 bent unending  past wheat
,  corn and potato.
Now
,  just as neglected.  Indistinguishable lines fade,
tar   slow collapses   from her intense  glare
,
left   spider
-cracked,          craggy not like
a flimsy  flower   seasons saturate
,  
sun
anointedglowing, glimpsed… 
by me
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7.27.22
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Hi Brian,

Congratulations on coming third in  [Link To Item #shadows]  with your absolutely beautiful poem, [Link to Book Entry #1035766]. 

This really is so clever and so pretty, and it has to be my favourite title of any poem I've read in a long time.

Rachel

Idea that we are beautiful and remarkably outlast some of a dying world?
I aspire as a buttercup, or as the weed? *Think*

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