young red leaf, on a sapling in Spring, slowly grows green. doesn't it know it should start green, and turn red in the Fall?
Living Backwards [Tanka]
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the tree stretches
wildly in all directions,
and yet feels balanced.

pink blossoms -
alive against the blue sky;
one flower falls.

flower-laden tree:
when next we meet
will be bare.

a tree grows
out of stone ruins -
not so ancient

a tree on the shore,
in stony ground & briny
water, thrives!

one shaggy branch
cranes out over the shore,
receives light reward