letters
to an unknown audience
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unreasonably eager/  /November 01, 2009

Unknown, The leaves here are absolutely brilliant. Trees use these to collect their food! It's like a drug, the brilliance of these leaves. You know that, You all-knower. You know everything of the world's fecundity, but act so natural. A lawnmower buzzes, and helicopters—Acer seeds—fly upward past my window. I am back in my childhood's dream of adulthood. Boston: its tightly-wrapped mild antiquity, what passes for America's antiquity.

It's like a dog, unreasonably eager to great you.

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love this post

—posted by miranda at November 2, 2009 8:29 AM

Ever since our biology teacher (Mr. Wolfe) suggested that trees drop their leaves as waste (much like animals drop their waste), I've found it more difficult to appreciate their beauty without that thought adulterating my awe.

—posted by Jeremy Stein at November 2, 2009 9:12 AM

One tree's trash is another man's treasure...

—posted by the author at November 3, 2009 10:43 AM
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