Live Oak
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 12:06PM
BVD in Commentary, Ephemera, Prose, Sketches, William Van Doren, trees

William Van Doren, pencil, 9 x 12, 2013.

A dead tree too awkwardly placed to cut down for firewood. A tall oak leaning, dead these two years, which on falling would have its choice of electric lines to take down. Might be enough wood for a month. But a dead tree that will just have to go on living.

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