| Death of a Tree (September 2002) In woods filled with wanton boys, a saw sliced into a still-living tree despite a prohibition against such an act. Then, bi- furcated, the flora fell, dead. The stump, examined, revealed a life spanning nineteen years, the sweet scent of fresh wood, and the sap-filled outer layers, sticky to the touch, no longer allowed to grow and harden, instead condemned to rot. |