When Dirt Strikes a Casket Shut and Lowered: one

By punchenella •
Alice was the stay awake fag
smoking late evening
early morning kind
I didn't notice
until now, a neighboring branch friend,
silver and peeling
extremity on
the tree that only
knew to know. She understood
when I was snapped off
the sleeping wood to
sleep in common rooms.
I , a branch that, kicked myself
out of her tree too,
once, to be a part
of dominating
birch. Alice has broken, freed herself
with strength never seen,
and merging life with the
brown decaying leaves
smelling of a fall.
A
fall.
Two stories Alice,
one I can read and
hardly understand,
the other makes perfect sense.