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Seasoning by George Bishop

​Late summer
and garden passwords begin
to change, the fingerprints
on flowers fall off and weeds
stand like old widows
wondering why they’re
outside. Soon,
everything’s a rough
sketch except stars
and the combinations
of snow they whisper.
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