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Leafers

Chris Butler

Life encircles each passing season.
The climate falls into predictable patterns.
Nature’s death provides beautiful scenery
In the region of New England.

The climate falls into predictable patterns.
We still admire the fall foliage
In the region of New England,
As we pile up the dead.

We still admire the fall foliage;
The seas of orange, yellow and red.
As we pile up the dead,
We swim through rotting mounds.

The seas of orange, yellow and red,
Absent of anything resembling green.
We swim through rotting mounds,
Decomposing corpses nourishing the earth.

Absent of anything resembling green,
Skeletons of towering trees,
Decomposing corpses nourishing the earth,
Bare branches now lacking leaves.

Despite her natural splendor,
Nature’s death provides beautiful scenery,
Although we know the redundancy;
Life encircles each passing season.

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