Treehugger

So i had some favorite trees as a kid...i suppose, in my head, they were 

like Ents...the talking trees...they sort of marked off the backyard which was a kind of wonderland 

to retreat

from the hellish anxiety ball that was school.

so there was this mimosa tree that i climbed and well, I must have been

quite literally  a kind of treehugger barefoot chimp child.

So anyway it grew and i grew and ..it just died.

My dad cut it down yesterday.

boom crack snap thud.

sort of a ....milestone. marker. 

it was a great tree...gone