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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

To celebrate the first day of autumn, here’s a poem called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

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• [The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]: comm n pr ble whe writin p ems in the shape of decid o s trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t sti rings of he new aut mn breeze, he oems will begi to shake hemselves ge tly ntil their letters loos n like leaves, an they d start to float down then [The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase] turntomushuponthegroun [The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.] (remote)