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9/2/2026 for The Numbers Game Poetry Contest sponsored by Nette Onclaud 

Love, the Second Time Around

No longer reaching for succulent fruit
but wishing to be the tree
that, in time, may bear it
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Etgen-Baker Avatar
September 2, 2026 at 4:23 PM
nicely done, sir.
Crandall Avatar
September 3, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Thanks, Sara!
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