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Dwarf Cherry Tree

I am humbly discouraged.

Deer once again
devoured gainful leaves
on my lonely dwarf cherry tree
I last hopefully replanted here

In part,
because it was repeatedly victimized
by mammalian grazing,
predation I hoped to leave back there.

Stunted,
unable to achieve
even planned and scheduled dwarfish size,

At risk of systemic
sun-nurtured failure,
not for lack of sun
or water,
but from over-grazing,
exploitation
of this tree's solitary replacement.

I have some dear friendships
like this over-exploitation
situation
destination
of over-indulged nutrition.

Safety zones
for mutual exploration
can also become
havens for insecurity predation
without alternative nurturing
and wider multiculturally challenging divination
of what is resiliently sweet,

What tastes predatively sour
and feels bitter,

And what smells tangy
fresh,

And what sounds played out,
tired
struggling remnants
of over-grazed communications,

While this feels true
at a personal
egocentric level
of predative grazing
and solitary unsolidarity treeness,
this hunger for safe zones
feels suddenly magnified
to a state
national
global eco-political level
by social 
political
economic
multicultural distancing.

Interrupting my blind normal,
searching for a wider grazing field
to know
and become known
for my sweet cherry leaves,
however autocratically dwarfed
or democratically magnanimous.

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