Ancient People Helped

the plant fact the sapling of of part
in planted attention from the platform and
the sculptured pot the Methuselah of of center

the in seed long-extinct hurt
rapt shows which in simplest
on tumble fruit as the palaces as

the in nudity month-long decades
figures dates that from naked
the soften leap the aim of of sweetness

-- Glenn R. Frantz

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