NATURE''S CROWN


    Nature’s crown knows


    no jewels, no gold


    or battered brass.


    Nature’s crown does not


    gleam in the twilight


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    or weigh like kingdoms.


    Nature’s crown is


    kind, ever growing,


    ever reaching like


    antlers cresting the moon


    and sun—a crown that grows


    from your own bones


    and falls with the leaves,


    only to sprout again


    in a time like spring.