Amorak Huey

The Peach Tree in the Center of the Compost Pile


For years we waited,
or so I remember.

One peach a year, or two, maybe, or four,
each the size of a toddler's fist
and pebble-hard.

More stone than flesh.

O broken promises.
O gnarled-limb
black-bark
twisted-trunk
test-of-faith.





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