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Swishing of the Oat Seed

On the bleak street
not a blade of grass,
only dust 
from the lorries,
the cement mixers.
A year later
I see a bud appearing,
by Autumn
this one golden blade
has grown tall.

The sound of a swishing oat seed
cheers me up
in grubby flatland.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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