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Hangman's Fall
A forest layered fruitfully with brutal beauty - favored by the Hangman.
For it is plentiful steeples - devouring the heavens.
Paths winding, coiling - a bending cord, engineering the way,
Through smooth laceration of disrobed flesh.
Bundle to juvenile, juvenile to swain, swain to ancient, ancient to dust.
Stand and behold the golden bodies - favored by the Hangman.
For they swing suspended, hanging, changing crimson with a rush of blush.
A chilling; abrupt, tempo sways, pushing and pulling.
Crimson bodies unexpectedly uprooted and polluted.
Crumbling to unhallowed creation - favored by the Hangman.
Now laying decaying, split from the origin, lingering for next year.

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I was inspired to write this piece back in Fall when the leaves were first turning. I'd come to the realization that the branches truly looked like hangmen dangling the leaves by a thread. I felt complied to express my emotional response through a work of short poetry.