Cracking Leaves by Desara Vladasi

The leaves crack

As I touch each page of green

Gone in a moment

With Time’s undeniable caress

Death clipped its edges

And beckoned it home

And the leaves bid adieu

Like Eurydice to her beloved

And just like that,

Orpheus lost his muse

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