8th in Slab City Contest (Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco)
Judged: April 16th, 2025
who remembers trees when air was free from fares guiltless tankless unassailable cliches of rustling leaves enchanted forests infanticidal practices like nestling newborns atop boughs cordate declarations etched beneath oak bark and canary sashes as dead as concrete blocks and the nearest approximation is a toy broccoli flower wire wools welded for steel topiaries laud the arboreal knights growing figments stalking the future with whom was shared breath and hearth in Slab City
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