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Jun
16
Tree Sentiments
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My neighbor cut her tree
It is suppose to be her tree
So she can do anything with it
But with the sound and shake
Trunks are coming down
Hard and heavy
A tree of fifty years?
Or is it longer?
Up roll the curtains
Out of the windows
Diameter of the tree trunks
As big as six feet wide
Pine needles
Scattering
The tree
Sighing, screaming, and crying
All at the same time
Sadness is eating me
Why I chatted so happily
When the neighbor told me she was going to cut the tree
I should have stopped her
Or is there any use
She said the tree blocked all the power lines
And she did not want to see it go either
She has an option to keep the trunks
But she chose to remove the tree
Shall I suggest differently
Whether she would listen
One big sound
Compresses
My heart
One shaking of the ground
The life
Lost
“It is easy!”
The machine laughs, grinding the trunks down
Minutes
Swallow
Years
Years of growing, to be
A tree of big canopy
A canopy, hides the bird
A canopy, over three families
In the backyard
A slice of sky that has not seen
Is open
Gone is the canopy of the pine
Forever
The peace between men and creatures
Is that a bridge
We can never maintain
But broken?