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plan for dying

in my dream world I will find a large tree wrap my arms around its trunk

and slowly, willfully melt my substance into that substance

and thus die

to be reborn each spring as several thousand tiny leaves

milking the sky outliving the weather planing through currents of wind and finally drying and falling

to begin again

published in Midcoast Poetry Journal, Vol. 2  (Amazon)

Thomaston, Maine — June 3, 2025

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