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a crowd of weed stalks they’ll all fall down when the snow melts
Dave Bonta
SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0
a crowd of weed stalks they’ll all fall down when the snow melts
In just three short lines, this haiku-like poem pictures a patch of dead weeds standing in the snow. The stalks are crowded together, stiff and dry, still upright after the growing season has ended. Then comes the quiet prediction: when the snow melts, they'll all fall down.
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