Oak

The mighty oak 
falls to the saw
and as it crashes
dreams
of acorn days
gripped in the mitten
of a child,
streaking down
a snowy slope.

“Someday
you will be
a sled,”
the child whispered
to his friend,
now, at the end,
the falling tree shouts,
“Rosebud!”
and nobody knows why.

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A version of this poem first appeared on Bluesky. Whispered into the acoustic sensors of the sleeping dreaming android, it prompted the electric sheep to generate one more tomorrow…

© 2025 Greg R. Fishbone, generated by Niji as a derivative work of the poem, "Oak" by Greg R. Fishbone