Boone’s Crossing

There is rock, and here is rock
With no stems at the seams.
A forest hidden in fruit,
My branches to the lanes.

Median.

There is rock, and here is rock
That faintly holds the root
Of this cedar pole.
The city vacates my wiring,
Sprouting past the borderland.

Aaron Koppel


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