Shipwrecks - A Valuable Commodity
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Fertile and cleared free of weeds, the wheat sways.
With a wave, shortened like an odd-yeared February.
The tree your acorn left is gone
but the stump remains.

With a wave, shortened like a last breath,
I push the shovel into the earth and begin digging.
Your stump remains.
Its roots running deep beneath the Maryland grass.

I push the shovel into the earth.
Enfeebled, I try to remove you.
Your roots running deep beneath the Maryland grass.
A battered fortress protecting something I want.

Enfeebled, I try to remove you.
Placing your mementos in a shoebox.
A battered fortress protecting something I want:
The land that it lies on.

I place your mementos in a shoebox, out of sight.
The tree your acorn left is gone
and I want the land that it grew on.
Fertile and cleared free of weeds.