Ginkgo
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| (Photography by Bruce Tang - found here) |
They ripped out
ginkgo trees today—
the young ones
by the old white church.
Yellow-bellied bulldozer
held one suspended
in its jaws,
her fan leaves
trembling like hymnal pages
she hung
above strewn soil
above cracked concrete.
The congregation watched
as she, narrow and frail,
flailed against the backdrop
of pillars, thick and glossy.
With a great squeal of unhinging metal
she dropped
and what a chorus she made.
~Sarah Kalthoff Sims
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