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Mar/Apr 2022

Tree branches and leaves against blue sky

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The alder is more beautiful dead than it was alive. When its leaves fell away, they revealed slender arms, silvery wrists of bark. Woodpeckers swoop and slip inside the craggy maw that has opened at the top of the tree. The birds are deepening the alder’s transformation. In death, it has opened itself up to the sky, and the birds have moved in. 

Fiction | March/April 2022 | By Keri Modrall Rinne


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