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Sequin

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A youthful bandit         this forest -         faltering eyelids in mud troughs         & puddles like         brisk lies         woven thru deception.         Stealing autumn into         its colours,         leaves in birchbark rustle         a full mauraud stealth         across every breeze.         Thief, thief         elf with a key,         a thousand rasping angels         their throaty javelins         hurled from branch's edge,         brief pageant robbing         summer's pantry.         Offal of the fall,         the lake a sequined glove         tossed from a careless hand;         a rowboat as a buckle         chromatic foam         for a finger's fan.

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