Dormant tune
You can see through black limbs
across the street
upstairs in a spare bedroom window
the sun trying to get up.
It has only one beam
straight as an oboe
to tune the unleafed
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Dormant tune
You can see through black limbs
across the street
upstairs in a spare bedroom window
the sun trying to get up.
It has only one beam
straight as an oboe
to tune the unleafed
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