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When he returned home after many years,

an enormous oak had split his house in two,

its trunk growing right through the center hall.

Though there was nobody living in the tilting

rooms, he recognized some simple objects:

a milk jug once filled with daisies, a single shoe.

Where a mirror had dangled, a darkened oval

remained on the wall. No bark, no call, no singing.

But though he didn’t understand what he saw,

he knew the tree, broad and green, was a blessing.