The Killing
Ryan Saladino
Today they cut down a neighborhood
Tree, came and sliced off
Its limbs, decapitated it,
And hauled the chunks away.
A mutilated corpse now looms
Among the living.
But what’s worse is that, in the tree’s
Absence, I can’t quite remember
How it used to look. If only I had glanced at it
In all its glory or wretchedness
Just one more time.