Counting Circles

Letting trees teach us how to live

Sep 20, 2023

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‪CIRCLES 8
The annual rings speak to us‬‪
Each one tells their own story‬‪
Each one hides their own secrets‬‪
Each circle, a line of poetry‬‪
Together forming an epic‬‪
Declaring a life spent navigating‬‪
Abundance and drought‬‪
Ended by the swift action‬‪
Of an ax whose handle ‬
Was once a part of this tree‬

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