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A Copy Book

You gave me once a copy book,

pages blank as a tabula rasa,

cover painted with a still life

of lush yellow peaches

and purple grapes

in a wicker basket,

and you urged me to fill it

cover to cover with love

poems.

Only, since you left 

for other orchards, I have

no more fruitful verse to pick.

George Held

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