Photosynthesis
has never been
so toxic.
The tree is cloaked
with rusted steel.
Oil trickles
from wounds
in the metal,
congealing,
clotting.
The leaves reek
of petrol fumes,
the withered branches
droop from the heat
of leaded starch,
piston-roots thrumming,
powering the engine
beneath the trunk,
pumping up oil
which soaked in
when it fell from
soot-infested clouds.
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