Chaya Tong
I know that nature can make things
imperfectly perfect
Like patches of uneven grass
or the crooked grooves of bark
yet still I wonder if
a tree where stub replaces branch
feels incomplete
as a one-armed man
wonder what we have done
they have done
if they felt like doctors with saws
finished with surgery
success
when they were done
or maybe if they merely drove away
a tree's arm in their trunk
and turned the radio up on high