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Published: Jul 29, 2014

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the tender weeds they tumble
into the fusty damp;
they shrivel -
curl like ribbons
adorning your grave.

The cold season has begun.

OliviaMichalski

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copper9lives

Jul 29, 2014

Your word choice is succulent, with too much direct brevity to be purple prose, although the image painted in my mind is positively Lovecraftian...

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