School begins again - without me, whee!

a bed of cosmos
surrounding last year's sandbox
rusting Tonka truck
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overnight
the lilac beautyberries
turn purple
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a summer lunch
seed-freckled tomato juice
in the saucer
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round and round
on the notebook spiral
a tiny black ant
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the creek's coldness
rustling over gravel bar
an orange leaf
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