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My Leaning Sycamore
May 16, 2021
In echo of the bent over woman Jesus healed
… and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. — Luke 13:11
Bent over woman
I think of you whenever I see
the bent over tree in front of me
Crowded hard by a nearby oak
towering with powerful limbs
with reach about to catch her
She leans away toward open sky
reaching for her share of sun
causing a permanent sway
each day, overpowered, she now
bows in obeisance — no longer
able to straighten her stance
to stand upright and sure
-JoMae
5/14/21
Nature Crippled Over Powered Life
