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Sapling

by Bobby Longstaff

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To sweet imperfection
In grown and inverse
The stub of a pencil, a stem of potential
Looking for earth

I was looking for us
so I planted a tree
You’re nowhere to be found but ghosts in this town,
are bothering me

It’s a little like me, a little like us,
bent in the middle but still reaching up.
Sometimes on a blue day, you'll think about me
One day you'll sit in this tree

Don't we love the attention,
Sticking out like a green thumb
But alone in a forest, a sun-setting chorus
when the people have gone

Are they falling or flying
For pebbles or pearls
I looked under a leaf, for a bird or a bee
Didn't care, couldn't tell

I water it daily except when it’s raining
But it’s been raining a lot lately

And we won’t remember
who stayed or who went
I'll be the goose
if you call a truce
and wave a flag from the trench

It’s a little like me/you, a little like us,
bent in the middle but still reaching/growing up.
Sometimes on a blue day, you'll think about me
One day you'll sit in this tree

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released January 15, 2024
Jevan Cole, Andrea Kirwin

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