Letter From the Desert: Cold Solace
Science tells us that the fallen tree
makes a sound.
It doesn't matter if we're there.
It doesn't.
The branches' sudden arcuate course
through whistled air,
the sharp crack of limb against limb,
the sickly pop of rotted roots
and then the final sodden thud
trunk on duff-stre…
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