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Empty Song

By Hannah McAvoy

 

I look out the window,
watching leaves shake and shiver.  

They should make music,
should jingle and chime under 
the wind's spell, stem and flow. 
 
As I watch,  
I can hear their bell tones
an unpredictable melody. 
 
Note by note, I watch them fall. 
 
A caesura. 
 
The trees sway nakedly 
groan a lonely harmony
awaiting spring again.  

To an empty song
as snow ambles from the sky. 

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