Sad stumps -trusty bamboo
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Sent: 08 January 2009 00:26
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birches
three birch saplings
burlap root ball
digging the hole
i fell, she laughed
watering it
sinking the ball
birches five years
over the roof
later wilting
then three birch stumps
five inches tall
that year we lost
five of our trees
the three birches
maple out front
the big old oak
cutting them down
we came apart
i moved out here
stumptown so-called
palm tree out front
bamboo in back
rewjr
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