By JAMES D. WATTS JR. Scene Writer on Jun 16, 2008, at 5:08 PM Updated on 6/16 at 5:08 PM
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My wife and I recently returned from a trip that took us across the width of the state of Arkansas. It's a journey we've made many times, but this time, as we drove along, my wife said, "Something about this place looks different."
It took us a while for this difference to sink in, but we realized it at about the same time: Trees.
Trees that looked like trees, all their branches in place.
I remember the first time I drove down the Turner Turnpike in the wake of the ice storms of this winter, and seeing acre after acre of snapped and split and crumpled trees. I've gathered several truckloads of fallen branches from my yard and that of my father-in-law -- and there's still stuff falling out of the ancient, towering pecan trees on his property.
Joyce Kilmer wrote the famous lines:
"I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree."
Then how do we describe the wreckage left behind, when nature's fury "unmakes" a tree?
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