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About Hades
by Robert Brown

Stuck behind a three-headed dog
Persephone cries in Hades bed
And Ceres mourns
And the leaves begin to fall.

In a small town,
With two stoplights
And lots of cows
And wranglers

A little girl plays alone,
Unafraid,
On the city’s sidewalk
In a pile of ruby and gold

Autumn leaves,
And her mother
Is not sad, and the girl
Has no pomegranate.

You, a stranger, wave at the girl
And when she smiles back
You are surprised, because, clearly,
No one has ever told her about Hades

Learn more about Robert Brown, including previously published fiction, at http://robertspencerbrown.googlepages.com/writing