Fallen Oak

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the great oak grows greater on the ground

becoming ground as we too go to ground

leaning into the afternoon

you see it too as you know i do

we know it together at once

one word is enough there is enough

one yes is enough one smile enough

the great oak in decay time never runs out

but it runs on without us too soon

creating the magnificent now

the proof of what stevens said

death is the mother of beauty

–with a reference to Wallace Stevens