u gonna weep for the weepin willow?
if a Salix falls in the forest and no one is around
does it make a sound? high-hubris of the man-ape
mastadon of trees mangled yesterday freak hurricane
blew thru Kansas town carnage on city streets some
killed by baseball sized hail some by slow decay Salix
by pagan-hating sky gods
NOTHING remains of my tree but a sawdust covered
stump ugliness of house it sheltered revealed for all
to see giant Salix made us all better now beggard by
it’s absence
willow one of the sacred trees of the Wiccans today
all lurid-moist +sepulchral scent of fetid tree-corpse
nostrils a-twitch it was the lagniappe of life in my
grey city now what?
it’s like it was never there! blankemptynegativespace
did human-minds create eternity? or was it already
there? (dumbkopfs) ditto a human life after a time
it will be like you were never here dig it?
like the faded photos of
Katie & Lazarus
like the graves
of Sarah & Joseph
who lay
in weed strewn
decay
or do they?
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Fall 2026 Happy 5787!
songanddancegirl 