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Zach Estes

Leaves in the Wind

Submitted by zestes on March 31, 2008 - 09:01.

Leaves in the Wind

By Zach Estes
Lyme School, Grade 7

Acrobatic leaf comes
Bunging out of the sky
Lands in a perfect upright posture
Cartwheels up and down
The road
A gymnast of a sort
The leaf lunges upward only
To seconds later
Parachute downwards
To the ground
The leaf is then
Trapped in a cluster
Of newspaper
It squeezes its way out
Only to perform for the
World again

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