Unspoken Word
April 10, 2018
PLUM TREE

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Today, I imagined everything I owned had reduced itself down to a singular plum tree -- the kind an 85-year old Japanese poet, sipping sake, likes to tend at the end of the day. This plum tree, this solitary plum tree, has suddenly become the still, ripe center of my life -- the axis around which all my desires dissolve, stunned as I am, ALIVE, purple fruit everywhere.

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Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at April 10, 2018 04:17 PM

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Gifted words, sweet to the ears!

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