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First Published in Pearls of the Pen
      Poetry Anthology, 2003

Published in ElizaPress Eclectic
    Anthology Series, No. 3,
      DIGGING, April, 2007  

 

Uninvited Guests

Early this morning, I found,
much to my chagrin,
the flowers in my garden
were as if they’d never been.

Bitten off above the soil,
green stubs left aground.
Mad enough to spit nails,
I fussed and stomped around.

It was easy to discover,
who the culprits were.
They left telling evidence
indented in the dirt there.

Their hoof prints tracked
all around the flowerbed;
no blossoms for my soul today,
food in their stomachs instead.
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