Bloody Leaves

Mar 13, 2026

micro photography of leaves — Photo by Oliver Hihn on Unsplash

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Fluttering leaves
Shed by mighty trees
Ordered to fall and smother

Spindly forms burst from buried wombs
Uncoil and breach the soil
Their sapling leaves reach and whither
Starved from the sun’s milk

Missiles for those 
That intrude on our roots
And seek to drink the sparse rays of sun
     Red, 
	     Orange,
	Yellow
                       Brown.

The colors of war
— Never change