• Poem: You Planted Trees

  • Jul 21 2022
  • Length: 1 min
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Poem: You Planted Trees

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  • You planted piñon treesone spindly maple in too tighta row

    Four children, not as tall asyour new trees, watched with me.Little did we know

    how soon, how tallthat trees and childrengrow

    Sometimeswe weep thatit is so.

    Excerpted from Beloved by Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad.

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