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…

The AI rendered this poem as a child holding an acorn in a snowy landscape, in front of the roots of a massive tree with a doorway built into it.