Cleveland Collaborative Renga-- Start

autumn cemetery
what would the dead give to hear
leaves crumbling under feet?

       from the hilltop, through bare trees
     towers gleam in evening sun

          scarecrow 
          the chirrup of the squirrel's 
          silhouette 

              the rag-man's shadow
              echo of an old lover

                  jasmine incense
                  in a frost of moonlight
                  her discarded thong

                     cold, the smell of winter:
                     first snowflakes sparkle in the air

                          Public Square:
                          privatized
                          and empty

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• Next verse: continued on part 2

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Background info:

• Let's do renku 
• Do you know... renku?
• Let's do renku (2)