Monday, July 31, 2017

A Maple



A Maple

the old maple,
the only evidence the old man was ever here,
in the middle of nowhere,
a place maples did not grow,
without encouragement,
his dreams are gone,
the same as his house,
and barn,
all that remains,
a maple,
old and out of place,
the same as the old man.


Douglas Polk

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