flowering pear tree
a trail of white petals
tracing the wind
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Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of young adult novels in verse, including The Surrender Tree, which received the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her most recent book is Hurricane Dancers, the First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck.
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valentine bloom
dried, bowed over
the jug
thoughtlessly-
the magnolia blooms
in a parking lot
Japanese maple
tiny red buds
~ spring ~
solitary raptor
tracing thermal winds …
a trail of carrion