West wind
winding street
a branch
ripped off -
a Mensch
look-alike,
head, arms
body, legs -
dead
yet its torn
corpse
had done
its duty -
it bloomed
in Spring -
it carried
seeds
in Summer -
dropped
its leaves
in Fall -
and
a few years
later
was felled
by the
West Wind.
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The old inhabitant
of my backyard
lies sprawling
felled by moonlighting treeclimbers
rotten in the heart
due to fall
euthanized by chainsaw
while I wasn't home
Me, squirrels and woodpeckers will mourn
while bugs and worms rejoice
50 years over
What do trees think?
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