Old and brown.
\nOnly your imagination can remember the deep red
\nOf this maple leaf on her tree in autumn,
\nExuberant with her sisters in the fall wind,<\/p>\n
Pirouetting on the tree.
\nYou picked it for me,
\nHolding it by the stem,
\nPointing to its lobs, declaring the five ways<\/p>\n
You loved me,
\nYou could not live without me,
\nAnd five reasons to immediately marry.
\nOur red maple tree made the best leaves for jumping,<\/p>\n
Our children laughed. And the best shade in summer,
\nYour mother declared.
\nI stroke the old leaf as I gaze at the tree,
\nSprays answering every breeze.<\/p>\n
She is my secret poetry tree \u2013
\nWhere my eyes wander when the words are congested,
\nA promise of movement in stifled time,
\nTreasure of our tribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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