| 102  7  3   
 | Let’s cast a sweeping look across this Apple Isle and see in a valley, little known to the mainland, a garden gnarled like old man’s hands behind a crumbling house of red and ochre brick. | 
		
		
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 | I have been mother
to a hundred soldiers,
holding their hands 
barely knowing 
their names | 
		
		
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 | “What would you get?  What should you give a lady who’s one hundred for her birthday?” | 
		
		
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 | Even though it was late November, it still bloomed. Extravagantly.  Obviously it had no shame, obviously it reveled in its own beauty.   | 
		
		
			| 94  15  11   
 | I tickled grass. I wanted to  | 
		
		
			| 1181  4  3   
 | The blooms are practical/
and cannot see themselves | 
		
		
			| 1166  6  5   
 | Posit butterflies/
as evidence of heavenly design. |