Yes, I like this very much. I wouldn't change a dot. Be pleased.
STEVE RUDD
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From: The Pennine Poetry Works [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Sue Scalf
Sent: 06 May 2003 13:51
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Subject: new: The History of a Yellow Leaf
The History of a Yellow Leaf
The history of a yellow leaf
is part of me. There are things
we do not need to learn:
the lineage of a maple tree,
the serpent's pedigree.
The genealogy of grief
requires no heraldry.
We know a doom
when streaks at dawn forecast
impending storm, know in the bone,
the red of alarm.
Some things cannot be taught--
the faithless lover's kiss that lingers long,
a honey on the tongue when winter comes.
In stinging memory, we taste the summer
when bees are gone.
Sue Scalf
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