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Submitted to Contest #49
The Old Man and the Sea of Leaves He waited. He sat on the splintery green bench in the woods and waited. Twenty years since retirement, he waited. His entertainments were mostly birds. A mockingbird and a Carolina wren perched overhead and dueled for his pleasure. He liked them, and those mourning doves which sidled up to him, and he fed them sunflower seeds. He had staring contests with bluetail skinks, and once he saw a litter of water snakes being born and wrapping around their mother’s body. In the winter months, he got to be friend...
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