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NON-CONFORMITY
Outside the main prison door
stands a tree.
Only a sapling, really.
Its healthy thin trunk lifts leafy branches
in a jaunty bow
to the south!
Strong, thick walls rise above it
on two sides.
Concrete blocks and columns,
straight and true,
according to somebody’s
level and plumb-line.
In the midst of those horizontal and vertical lines,
the little tree defiantly
– and joyfully –
maintains its graceful curve.
A testimony that the Spirit of Life
cannot be confined
by the straight, the powerful
and the narrow.
3 June 2009 - mshr
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