Three Trees

by Emily Uduwana

Art by Nazrene Alsiro

On weekends we drove up

to a mountain

called Two Trees,

man-made like the creek by our house,

unnatural

like the lake by the highway

and my father would point

out the window

and he would say:

this mountain has a surprise

at the top,

three trees instead of two.

Last weekend, we drove

to my parents’ house

and I introduced you--three of us

instead of two--

and my father pointed out the window

again,

but this time

he did not call it a surprise,

this time he called it

unnatural.

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