Raking Leaves
National Poetry Month/Poem a Day
Raking leaves
into piles
Bending over
Picking them up
And bagging them
Is my favorite
Thing to do
---said no one
Ever
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Chuck Etheridge
Novelist, Teacher, Transplanted West Texan, Reluctant Poet
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