The flexibility of the living and the stiffness of death sit side by side here upon the mountain.
The life filled poplar dances in time with the touch of the Levante wind. Its neighbour though stands tall and unrepentant in it livid rigor.
This gauche morbidity will soon crack in the face of the great storm.
Until it falls to the waiting earth it lives on as a home to the woodpecker and a perch for the watchful hawk.
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Photo: Poplar at Saladaviciosa. Courtesy of the author.
