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In the misty highland rainforests
I reach for the canopy and summer rain,
cloud forests hot and humid.

I drop my fruit before it is ripe
for the large flightless birds to carry off,

but the birds are extinct,

    and I still exist,

my scarlet-fleshed fruit waiting on the
    forest floor, like black eggs
my glossy brown seeds to be spread

  peak   phenomenon  

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