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Bricks: A New Book of Poetry
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Optimism

“At Least,”
the leaf thinks out loud, losing its grip
on the branch,
“I die in color.”
And whispers this time and again
in a pretty concert with the shriveled
broken leaves on the ground.

© 1992 Daniel X. O'Neil

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