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  • Writer's pictureDon Rearden

Cactus Heart



in the end

the spines

won't protect you


tough skin

barbed spikes

deter creatures

who know better


except those

with their own

cactus heart



[April 5, 2023 -- Poem-A-Day Challenge for National Poetry Month. ]

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