Saturday, March 6, 2010

for my mother

I wonder how much it must hurt a tree
every time it drops a seed,
remembering being small in this world,
with only a single root
and two tiny leaves,
and I wonder,
when fruits get heavy
and darken, and their stems brittle,
does each fiber breaking
vibrate through tendrils deep within the earth
and shudder sunkissed leaves?

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