Twenty-Eight

Music: A la Claire Fontaine
Sequenced by Barry Taylor

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Twenty-eight enjoys a busy morning Working unabated in her garden. Each tiny plant is years away from bloom, Needing now the gift of ample room To grow before the ground begins to harden. Yet there is much to savor in this dawning. Each year the winter whistles its chill warning, Inviting her to lay aside her burden, Glimpse unsought of universal doom. Hard at work, she finds her inner guerdon To be the shoot that rises from the tomb.