The Hollow (12)

Dave BontaContemplative

a self-closing gate among 200-year-old oaks

its rusty note

smothered in leaf duff the violet’s self-fertilized alter ego

ah to be both dapper and invisible

striped wintergreen

ignored by a pileated woodpecker

the dust from her drill

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smothered in leaf

both dapper and

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