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Rotting Fruit

Linden

When the first storm
Rattles the branches
Fruit trees begin dropping
Fruit .
Out of the woods
Deer appear
Delicately  approaching.
First the does.
Then the bucks .
Every apple one by one
Disappears.

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If I'm alive I might be writing.

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Submitted by Skooglinden9 on December 17, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFCBGHI
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 204
Words 39
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
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