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Original Poetry by Martha Lee Phelps

Blackberry Season

“Blackberry Season” The kids used to pick with me. Pick one Eat three. Their small smooth hands would grow tacky with ripe purple juice; and their kissable mouths became stained with sweetness. They methodically alternated between plucking the fat berries … Continue reading

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