amazingly, the tree i tried to hang myself on
being cut down to less than a stump
in my garden - has reemerged strong
in my neighbour's garden, the one that keeps
weeds, it's there right now, a healthy sprout
about two metres high, yep, the same tree,
it migrated - i guess a befitting gift -
just like in the old days of the Polish-Lithuanian
commonwealth and the acceptance of Jews
and immunity from the bubonic plague in
the Cracow region.