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Poem Details
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| Title: | The Trees |
| Author: | Pegasus22 |
| Date Submitted: | 5/2/2006 |
| Poem: |
The trees came down and when you stood in the backyard the space above the roofline was new the smell of the washing on the clothesline was fresh like we had just moved in. But our house looked fallen in the absence of the trees. Trees that had never fallen on our house in eighty years of growth. The jacaranda reigned triumphant tall and untouched. The birds flew on into the distance through the space where the trees’ branches had lifted the sky.... |