4.09.2013


I came home late last night to find that the pine in front of our apartment had been removed. A crater of loose soil was all that was left, soil that I would normally love to see, imagining what could grow, but now only thinking of what was lost. I stood looking out the window in the dark, crying, looking at the ugly cars with their ugly metal, their ugly shapes.

Goodbye to this view. I'm not a child; I just loved that tree.
Posted by at Tuesday, April 09, 2013

8 comments:

  1. Jane FlanaganApril 9, 2013 at 9:42 PM

    Oh no!!

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  2. AnonymousApril 10, 2013 at 12:33 AM

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  3. AnonymousApril 10, 2013 at 7:58 PM

    "I think that I shall never see
    A Poem lovely as a tree"

    By Alfred Joyce Kilmer

    I, too, love trees

    Lorraine

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  4. querido diárioApril 11, 2013 at 6:48 AM

    I hate when this happens.

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  5. BellefleurdelisApril 11, 2013 at 10:46 AM

    oh nooo not good at all, why did they removed the tree???such a shame....

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    1. Jessica KleoppelApril 16, 2013 at 9:52 AM

      Lotte, it was getting sick and maybe even in danger of falling limbs. But, I loved it so.

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  6. lucent imageryApril 16, 2013 at 7:19 PM

    Oh that's so sad. I still look at the gap left by a tree that I didn't think needed to be removed a couple of years ago - I'm the nanna who emailed the council about it to ask why! And a horrible person poisoned the most incredible tree which is currently trying to be saved. It just makes me so sad, that's years and beauty that can't be replaced by a sun shade or some other structure.

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  7. Debie GraceApril 21, 2013 at 7:45 PM

    Oh, that is very sad :(

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