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I've been thinking
About apple trees
How they must
Be planted in pairs
To grow
How they must
Be different from their parents
And each other
To yield the sweetest fruit
How they must
Roll and root
Into each other
Beneath the earth
Anyway
I just thought
I'd let you know
How they must
ZZ Jelenic is a Ukraine-born, Brooklyn-bred poet and mother. Her poetry has been published in The Poetry Society of New York's Milk Press and will be published in A Thousand Flower Books' upcoming poetry anthology, "When Flowers Sing" this Spring. Find her on Instagram @zzjelenicpoetry.
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