"I choose, for moderate comfort, a thin tree
whose tallest branch has yet one leaf
hunched brown. A flag? Defiance? Obstinance?
A declaration I suppose.
I make it mine."

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Leaf by M. Travis Lane (2024 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://tinyurl.com/2tpuh2zb