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Black Nightshade - Wild Food UK

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NEFARIOUS NIGHT SHADE

cowboy can faultlessly eye cauldron of brandy
but carbocyclic camphorweed forgotten
his youthful kith unquietly loll in Kursk
to guard nefarious nightshade

(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • July 13–19, 2026)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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July 20, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Great arrangement of words and a little alliteration there also..
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July 19, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Spiro Agnew at his best couldn't keep up with you, Sara. ~ A nattering nabob of negativity, gw
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