Promise
The day after flames
gnawed the roof off his family's home -
the blackened bedroom walls,
a jagged crown, still warm to the touch -
I saw him out back in the garden,
standing alone, watering
the sapling birch.
The day after flames
gnawed the roof off his family's home -
the blackened bedroom walls,
a jagged crown, still warm to the touch -
I saw him out back in the garden,
standing alone, watering
the sapling birch.
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