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the melon
has been picked
pine for next year

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Jack-o'-Lantern


The natives grow on vines,
slowly,
the head appears first,of course,
and it takes years before they mature and drop off,
dehisce, to give it the technical term,
too bad we learned all this
the day after Halloween.

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the front yard yielded
a crop of new melons
one perfect child each