orchard

Ho Ho Ho The Snow

old apples
in their Santa hats
Christmas in the orchard

abiding change
resolute in bearing fruit
apples in community

holding space and memories
of the orchard
from long ago

revealing the sense
of being solitary
inside togetherness

pruning
in pursuit
of fruit

her limb
heavy with ripeness
presenting gifts

holding space
for
flower and fruit

a tapestry
the apple tree
hung upon the sky

gathering sweetness
rounding with time
growing into themselves

in the shelter of others
buds blossom and fruit

one must
dare the top rung
to tend the apple tree

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