DELIVERED

I haven't gone mad

just intensely sane


I cut off the dead branches

and all the rotten fruit


that did not fall

and dispatched them to their heap


and delivered myself

from the conservation


of so much tonnage

of sorrow and regret


and now new tilling

nothing's all done yet


and I'm free and clear

to drive that plow again...




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