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...
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