Friday, September 21, 2018

Lone Valentine

The way a tree gets stuck
Between a river and a rock
After a flood in the muck
 
The way a tree gets fucked
Into flower by a gang
Of sunny days
 
The way it recovers
The one arm left
Sprouting suckers
 
The way it marries
Its trauma to its leaves
Settling into a new cleft
 
There in the middle of the river
Anchorite of a rock
The lone survivor

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