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Still Life

You've found
something
of the full moon
in the sheen of your grapes.
Like the light
in a sheep's eye;
fresh in its skull,
it has robbed you
of sun,
of the warmth in your fruit.

Instead
it's conspired
to show shadows and plums;
to highlight
the bite marks
in the flesh of your figs.

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