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Article: Bush Lemons.(Poem)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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BUSH LEMONS
Once there was a vineyard here
in green and ordered rows.
Now the bleaching grasses bend
and nothing fruitful grows
except a self-sown lemon tree
with leprous, aching boughs,
heavy with the bitter fruit
come of a daze of flowers.
Strange, ugly and unpromising fruit,
a crop of warted noses, ...
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