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Ashley Wagner
I am the red which shows no limits
I flow endlessly from the heart
and although I am quite common
it is not often that I part
from my host, though he is fragile;
he is a delicate young boy
who has a strange love for adventure
and uses forests as his toys
And so it is you’ll find me
speckling the snowy ground
but suddenly a foreign creature
comes across our body found
and he tears into our flesh
and I spill across the snow
and although something’s changed
the “something” is unknown
But wait! My host is stronger
his fragility has left
the only other consequence
is his childhood’s bereft
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