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Cactus Heart

  • Writer: Don Rearden
    Don Rearden
  • Apr 4, 2023
  • 1 min read

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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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