NATURE'S CROWN

  Nature’s crown knows

  no jewels, no gold

  or battered brass.

  Nature’s crown does not

  gleam in the twilight

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  or weigh like kingdoms.

  Nature’s crown is

  kind, ever growing,

  ever reaching like

  antlers cresting the moon

  and sun—a crown that grows

  from your own bones

  and falls with the leaves,

  only to sprout again

  in a time like spring.