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Choice Trees

From the May 1993 Print Edition

In primal garden the tree stands laden, splendor consummate, grace-rooted, owned by him who warns, don’t eat or sure you’ll die. Yet you, arrogant Adam in us all, grasp prerogativesnever due. Thrust out, bedeviled, you stumble . . . . Continue Reading »