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Re: Three more poems by Eamon Grennan
by margaretnelsonwest

the seed that is to become the aplpe tree

it still in the apple

but still it is an apple tree in each bite that it taken

into the heart and soul of eve

and given to adam

i alsys will be the giver

and adam the eater

so who took that first bite

that took us aawy from paradise

and made all the mean insects, snakes and giant man eating bears

was it the lust of man or the

love of woman for the man

or just the simple fact that

in the beginning the world with apple leaves apple blossoms apples and apple trees began

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