The palm tree knows

How to weather storms

Though she started out small

Just a cluster of fronds

Pushing up through the sand

She reaches vast heights

A skyward journey

As winds whip across the desert

Her trunk sways

Through the gales

And her height

Becomes angled steps

The more she has seen

The more she has bent

But always

Reaching ever higher ~ Caroline A. Slee

Crooked

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