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| Honorable Mention, December 2009 | |
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TREE PLANTING Christine J. Schiff (About Poetry Forum) It is tree planting time again, this time a Kauri for Ann. Some people die slowly, day after day as they live. Some die quickly after living too fast. Ann died gently as she had lived. There was time for us to talk, with the quiet ease of old friends about her favourite tree. Together we had planted in the past trees for others, now it was time for her to decide which one I’d plant alone in her memory. The Kauri grows slowly, lives for a thousand years. She said the wind would whistle though hers, and so it does, so it does...... 
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