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Poem: You Planted Trees
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Poem: You Planted Trees

Poem by Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad (from Beloved)
John Kremer
Jul 21, 2022
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You planted piñon trees
one spindly maple in too tight
a row

Four children, not as tall as
your new trees, watched with me.
Little did we know

how soon, how tall
that trees and children
grow

Sometimes
we weep that
it is so.

Excerpted from Beloved by Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad.

Beloved by Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad
Beloved by Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad

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