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Deciduous by Kasandra Larsen

Falling off at maturity
                                    falling out as soft baby teeth
 

  brown needles
    bicuspids
      brazen
 

            Antlers with their velvet loosened.
 

Abscission sounds just like the thief
                                                            nature made it, takes advantage
   of winter
     drought
       the sixth birthday.
 

            Pairs with gravity.  Steals away.

Kasandra Larsen's STELLAR TELEGRAM won the 2009 Sheltering Pines Press Chapbook Competition and is forthcoming [...]