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The Flame

The flame of orange persimmon collides
with the dark of the pomegranate
as the seeds circle the thing of
change they learn how the inside
is the outside. Within an apple of rust
is a seed that is born and how the hill
is alive and dead at the same time.
As the rattle of the snake is the
fate of the tree and if the mouse
steps here the bird will live and
if it does not the bird will die.
And the wind in the tree is
nothing.

Forrest Ambruster, Age 11
Lakeshore Elementary School
San Francisco, California
Teacher: Grace Grafton (1998 ROW Teacher of the Year)

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