Wednesday, October 29, 2008

How Not to Prune a Tree


How Not to Prune a Tree

her branches reached for the sky,
only to be hacked to the ground,
her trunk sliced in two,
her energy pushed down into
the ground, the result of
a red neck with a chainsaw
and nothing better to do.
But wait, she tries again, sending
out small branches, each of them
reaching up to the sky.

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