昨天晚上去碧湖邊看看那些樹，倒得亂七八糟、斷得狼狽不堪。心理只有庸俗的情緒：明年夏天沒樹蔭了。

新傷！特別去摸摸它。覺得它會痛。這麼激烈的撕裂！

走完半圈看到四隻水鳥(暗光鳥)站在釣客旁等食物。

走完一圈，看到一對鴛鴦停在翻落水底的斷樹殘枝上休息。心中不免波動了一下。

真美呀，大地！

回來將斷樹圖片post在學生台，一個在賓州唸英語教學的學生立刻貼一首詩回應我的庸人情緒。好樣兒的白目雙胞胎！隨時「孝敬」老師的好孩子！(這老師也未免太幸福了！)


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A Lament for the Oak Tree
by Becky the Other

The stately oak once arrayed in colors gay
Who before reigned in unabashed splendor
Now stands ashamed, as a woman
Stripped, ravaged, and robbed
Her glory, here yesterday, has vanished

Shorn, forlorn, unadorned is she
The surrounding forest senses her shame
No more do birds call through skies blue
The squirrels no longer chatter gaily
All about her lies in melancholy, deep mourning

I, as I walk by, do too sense her pain
And soften my steps while I gaze
Saddened am I that she is dethroned
But hope remains for she shall arise, renewed
As if a phoenix from the grey ash
When it is spring again