Shoe Tree (with apologies to Joyce Kilmer)

I think that I shall never see

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A poem lovely as a tree.

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A tree that may in Summer wear…

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Abandoned flip-flops in her hair.

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Poems are made by fools like me,

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But God and man have made this tree.

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Inspired by Joyce Kilmer’s classic poem, Trees, and the shoe tree I discovered on my walk along Cleo Street Beach this morning. (Background mural by artist Lorey Shaw Hellige.)