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I love that tree

This is our place. You sit with your back to the tree I love, and I think:

you planted that tree

The seasons turn, right outside the window of our place.

Before I loved that tree, I wondered of it: how do you change, so effortlessly, and with grace?

Then, I came to love that tree: I love that tree and that tree loves me.

You gave a gift the day you planted that tree by our place. You didn’t know then, don’t know now:

you planted that tree, and I love that tree and that tree loves me

And right here, right where that tree loves – love simmers here, too.

The tree I love is waiting for spring… photo by Mary Elyn Bahlert, 3/2024