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There are scattered
wildflowers
wilting among the coarse grass.

Solitary
deer
graze on prickly
stems.

Birds gossip
in the branches
of
dead
oak trees.

Sunlight casts a
dappled
shadow
onto the
hard
dirt.

And the wind
whispers
secrets to me
over the
bent
corn.

Meadow Julia Lipkis
Julia Lipkis,12
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania