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Aug 28Liked by Rosa Gilbert

Brilliant imagery! The squash’s best sundress…the pollen dyed by sunshine…beautiful!

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Thank you!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!!

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Ok, the squash’s sundress. That’s brilliant! The shape of it!

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Thank you, friend!! I'm glad you saw that, too. I realized after writing that line that it actually went perfectly with the squash's shape!!

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I love it too!

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Thank you, Jennifer!!

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I can see this so clearly!:

"and the straightneck squash in my friend’s garden

arrives plump, clothed in its best sundress

Honey trickles down from the hive,

dripping with tiny specks of light"

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Thank you, Margaret. I was going for that !!

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Also, props to US for persevering haha. I'm still catching up as well but excited for the final poems!!

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OOH Rosa the rolling SOUND and rhyme you achieved in these lines brought such a rhythm that it felt like a song, love it!!

"But the marigolds, the goldenrods

blooming in their luster-filled colors, leave those to me,

to carry my soul through the darkness

after summer has gone to sleep"

such a joyful, color-packed poem!!

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Thank YOU Claire, I've been so encouraged by this series and all the ways it has grown and stretched our poetry!! <3

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Ending is golden.

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