DAYS IN MY GARDEN 



break, strong and supple as an athlete, that with age 

 toughens like the warrior : the stately horse-chestnut, 

 candelabra bearer at earth's spring Offering ; the stiff, 

 straight fir, each bough in place, rigid and unbending, 



. STORM-BEATEN, BATTERED, SCARRED. 



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