The Ringleader

I was beginning to feel sorry for the tree--

if that was even possible

Loneliness, as it turns out, isn't only for human beings--

another assumption

among many

proved wrong and entirely disputable by all things voiceless

Merely acknowledged when discussing the long distance runner

Dickinson

Thunder Road

and the walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death

At the end of the dirt road was supposed to be a grove

and a canopy

but things don't always work out the way they are supposed to, now do they?

And there it stood--

a lone maple

within eye shot of Dickinson

after the screen door slams

in the peripheral of the great steeplechase

Unnoticed

overlooked--

wilting over scores