from emerald to ash the borer hies
pressing leaf into shadow
tearing through wood with a reason
writing hieroglyphs in hunger
seeming a cousin to cave scribbles
as madness is all to madness
would you go on a walk with me
through seasons of damage
we can bless the falling of pillars
whittled from feral feasts
recorded on stoic skin and bones
etched into fasting flesh
for every time we've been reduced
by some primitive scrawl of loss
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Pic: I had to step across this tree trunk, which lay in my path in Baker Woods. And it looked like there were some primitive cave-painting-type etchings on it. A Google image search taught me that this is what damage from an emerald ash borer looks like.
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