Hour Six: Sentry

Sentry

 

Late summer’s tree stands proudly sagged

with age-spotted greenery weeping in the

humidity. its trunk hosts industrious insects,

frantic with winter premonitions

 

Fierce late summer tempests taunt the tree,

daring it to shed its steamy, wilting coat

prematurely

 

If the late summer

tree survives, she will be stripped,

abandoned, sentry

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