does a tree remember it’s once
lens-filling grandeur that picture
showing every finger fully spread
blocking out the blue sky
as it looks at its stooped posture
without all the vigorous branches
only the brittle few that remain
like an old man in overworn clothes
thinning hair and posing in
mid-stumble
a twisted sense of humor
keeps him going as he jokes
about one day cutting off the
sap spigot at sunset
and hopes no one
takes him seriously
if he happens to do it
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