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A Purple Iris
June 23, 2017
blooms
in the dead grass,
fragile petals
trampled into earth;
the children
race their bicycles
over asphalt
and I stand
on my porch,
wondering what
the world was like
before we
covered the earth
in concrete,
the antithesis
of abstract.
© Rusty P., Balch Springs, TX
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