This tree is from my past. It grows amid some buddhist statuary I visited on the Korean island called Ulleungdo in September, 2009 – one of my favorite places in Korea. I took the photo with my old flip-phone, and you can see the time-stamp in the lower right.
Day: September 16, 2021
Caveat: Poem #1873 “Loss, enforced”
ㅁ I lay in bed like a cold statue I had aged more than usual but sleep was still failing me the old pains nagged at me the scars in my mouth and down my neck ache often enforce loss