Hacked And Shorn Poem by Helen Maeda

In Hiroshima every year the trees lining the city streets are brutally stripped of all their leaves and branches are hacked leaving behind sad stunted forms and grey concrete streets. Presumably it's to stop the inconvenience and mess of fallen leaves littering the streets but to me it was always such a sad loss of beauty and moved and angered me to write this poem.

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(October 2011)