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The dreaming orchard, the mother trees

Lucia O’Corozine

July 24, 2017

Department: Poetry

Issue: Exploring Humor

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In the orchard

In the apple trees

Hanging there on borrowed blankets

Cradled in the trees embrace

I’m not really sleeping

I want to

But I know the tree will grow tired and let me fall to the ground

Severed like ripe fruit

I never truly rest

I don’t need to

I come to dream

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Lucia O’Corozine is a 14-year-old homeschooler from New Paltz, New York. She loves to draw, write poems and speak Italian. Her favorite Italian word is “cielo”, meaning sky.