The Apple Tree Cut Poem by Leslie Philibert

The Apple Tree Cut



That drinks the black earth,
tripped in its own shadow;
the sun eaten by fallen leaves

of Autumn`s fading; fingers
fragile and broken; twigs
the polished leg of a dead gull

white centered with milk;
wonder the mess of branches,
flags of prayer torn.

The tree shouts; each cut
an hour less; seconds rubbed out;
the lost next waits in the wings.

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