I have hugged a three thousand year old redwood tree and asked it to remember me someday tree will use marrow, absorb my nitrogen, my iron that I grew accustomed to seeing in my youth drip red drip every month clearing my ****** to grow its own leafy children I will be locked in it’s green splendor come spring and summer and fall I will die again as I did before, and in winter I will disappear as I have done before o my to defy death with the help of my ringed friend. We together. A redwood in my heart my heart in a redwood