Written today

No
is a complete sentence, yet I
explain and explain

Hearing thunder,

waiting for rain

under blankets.

I love my neighbors' blackberry bushes.

Thorny green branches - - 
white flowers, but no berries. 
The blackbirds will wait.

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Thorny branches stray 
over the old gray fence - - 
no blackberries yet.