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A poem that found a home in my notebook six months ago and nearly remained since I couldn't stick a title on it.

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Oct 27, 2024
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brown grass near mountains
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Red and iron cut through the parchment 
like a starving wildfire that's just happened
upon a forest but the words only remain 
legible through serendipitous beating hearts
and not the machinations of the bloodletted
phantom legacies older than 13 colonies.

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