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Last Leaf Before Winter
By Jessica Burts
Gwinnett Technical College, Lawrenceville, GA
September will never come
she said. Crop
circles in her eyes
looking deeply
and falling
back to Earth when
she looks
forward. The cigarette butt
touches the ground.
It’s cancer he
said. She smiled and
tipped the man.
Then, laughed all the way home.
Faculty Contact:
Rebecca Alexander, Program Director, English
This poem was submitted for the "Poetry for the Mind's Joy" project and is reproduced here with permission from the author. All rights reserved.
