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Enigma
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The Hudson Review
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July 1, 2008
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Whether one shoot divided in mid-growth,
halved intimately lengthwise, face to face,
or, sprung from common soil that nurtured both,
two seedlings twined in their not-quite-embrace,
this maple-or these maples, who can say?-
cleave to what may be fiction-the one bole
rising "to heavenward"-and yet display
at once the cloven parts, the living whole.
Not that birds care which of the two it was-
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