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Memories of the maple
By Jaxson DeCelle, 9, Middletown Springs, VT -
If you can get up, you can get down:
By Gaia Lenox, 16, Cambridge, VT
Have you ever had sour
cherries?
They're an angry fruit
that stings your throat
and boils in your stomach -
Everyone's and also mine
By Ruth Knox, 12, Essex Junction, VT
It's everyone's and also mine,
chipping bark and a hanging branch,
amber leaves that drift to the weeded ground,
a forgotten sweatshirt sits at the trunk -
With these roots
By Emma Paris, 14, Putney, VT
One tree
was the tree I leaned upon
while I had my first kiss
One tree
knows that secret
I trust trees more than people -
Tree blood
By Zinnia Hansen, 17, Port Townsend, WA
A tree has blood, thick blood
that fills its cold fractals with slow warmth.
We watch the rain fall.
And tenderly, I brush the water from my eyes. -
The tree planter
By Annika Gruber, 16, Charlotte, VT