Long listed for the 2023 Urban Tree festival writing competition
This leaf is from the gum tower parched with the antipodean habit of thirst, sending suctorial root- snakes lickety-split, deep down under, slipping and winding, sucking dry the garden. Oh they slither and slip, splitting the bricks, scour the mortar, shifting and heaving the heft of the house. A storm cracks shaking the crow boats from the sea of leaves; shattering the spindle fingers of the branches, rattling and scattering a yellow slew of spears. The rogue Ghost is faultless but unkindly placed: a migrant spire retrieving the sun from a grey English sky.
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2023 Urban Tree festival Long list of the "Secrets of the Trees" themed writing competition.
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