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poem submitted to "Tree" poetry contest, Seth Pina, sponsor, 6/28/2026
where the world thins the trees begin to blur~ their edges softening, their forms drifting apart like thoughts forgetting their own meaning. suddenly, light unthreads itself no longer behaving like light at all~ a pale unraveling that slips sideways through the visible. tree branches lose their certainty stretching into shapes that refuse to stay fixed, as though remembering a geometry that never belonged to this plane. their roots drift upward not rising~ but detaching, as if gravity is only a rumor the forest no longer believes. leaves shimmer into symbols flickering with meanings that dissolve the moment you notice them~ messages written in a language that erases itself. then the trees dissolve~ not vanishing, but slipping into a softer version of being~ to a place where form is only suggestion, and reality is a thin veil the trees pass through effortlessly.
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