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Dutch Elm

by Cole Miller

a disease spreads through
the town marking our trees with
spray painted x's

09/10/2003

Author's Note: 5-7-5

Posted on 09/10/2003
Copyright © 2024 Cole Miller

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Andrew S Adams on 09/11/03 at 12:31 AM

i am going to be severely confused for the remainder of forever... this ni/cole thing is going to drive me up a wall! aah. anywhodle. this poem, i see it every day. such an irony; spraypaint in vibrant life colors, when the tree is numbed to nothing.

Posted by Ashok Sharda on 09/14/03 at 11:39 AM

Beautiful minimal. Live presentation.

Posted by Agnes Eva on 12/02/03 at 07:56 AM

this is pretty excellent. the first two lines take you in a direction thinking of human diseases (plague, aids) but the ending suprises with a nature disease... but maybe the trees are sick ultimately because of humans poisoning the environment which increases the beatles which spread the disease (humans being the disease to nature in a way). wow so much depth here that it's surprising the whole thing is also a straight sentence.

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