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After the Harvest  
by Alex Grehy

The aliens came

to reap the human harvest

planted long ago.

.

Gleaning space scythes sweep.

Gather, butcher, store, move on,

bear the harvest home.

.

Blood and body parts

fall silently, like pink snow,

lie soft like blossom 

.

Fertilised and freed 

from the burden of the crop, 

the garden breathes again.

Fiction © Copyright Alex Grehy
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from author Alex Grehy:

After a lifetime of writing technical non-fiction, Alex Grey is fulfilling her dream of writing poems and stories that engage the reader’s emotions. Her work has been featured by a wide range of publications including Siren’s Call, Raconteur, Bookends Review, and Toasted Cheese. One of her comic poems is also available via a worldwide network of public fiction dispensers managed by French publisher, Short Edition. Her ingredients for contentment are narrow boating, greyhounds, singing and chocolate. It is a sweet life, yet Alex’ original view of the world has led to her best friend to say ‘For someone so lovely, you’re very twisted!

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