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   CRANBERRIES
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picking cranberries
in the relentless cold
one hand ungloved
at a time

to pluck frost-ripe
red spheres
nested in the moss

some frozen hard
some bubbles barely
icy frail

this is what
the land has
to teach me
today

these tart sweet sudden
instances
of flesh

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