Excerpt from The Rowan Tree by Marina Lee Sable

Transformed to wood,

I am a deathless secret

encased in spellbound bark.

But there is solace in the rowan.

I am alone, except for history

conjured back as a wraithlike chant

within a church of crumbling stone,

fallen beams, and torn roof.

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