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Lilac Bones MAG
February 2, 2013
Small and brittle as the leftovers
of a mouse
long dead
and withered
by this god-forsaken winter;
but pale and hollow
– weightless –
like the bones of a sparrow
polished by the wind.
I pass them each morning, somehow
the only things peeking out
from the soot-spotted snow and ice.
Their leaves are
curled up
in baby's fists;
huddling from the cold.
The fragile smell of lilac
lingers on my gloves
long after I've pinched off the last
of the tight-fisted leaves.
© Steve S., Marblehead, MA
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