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He photographs his wife in calico and a crumpled smile, poised over the new mechanical clothes mangle

He wonders: What makes the bark twist and swirl so, in a tree so straight and wide? Could it be the spinning of the Earth? Is it trying to get the attention of men? Seven hundred years before, a chestnut in Sicily two hundred feet around sheltered a Spanish queen and her hundred mounted knights fro…

The branches dapple him