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    A woman writes sentences alone that no one will read. She writes about five million oak tree seeds doomed to die so that one might live. She tells herself she is alone and a loner when she needs to be. She imagines the future while staring at the present moment, keeping it on life support. She questions aloud if what she is doing is brave or stupid. She writes that all the seeds are brave and stupid without any hope, but that she is no seed - she is the oak.

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    A woman writes sentences alone that no one will read. She writes about five million oak tree seeds doomed to die so that one might live. She tells herself she is alone and a loner when she needs to be. She imagines the future while staring at the present moment, keeping it on life support. She questions aloud if what she is doing is brave or stupid. She writes that all the seeds are brave and stupid without any hope, but that she is no seed - she is the oak.

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    A woman writes sentences alone that no one will read. She writes about five million oak tree seeds doomed to die so that one might live. She tells herself she is alone and a loner when she needs to be. She imagines the future while staring at the present moment, keeping it on life support. She questions aloud if what she is doing is brave or stupid. She writes that all the seeds are brave and stupid without any hope, but that she is no seed - she is the oak.

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    Alone,

    By Hamish Roberts

    No other eyes would ever read the sentence


    It would be deleted like the one before
    She wrote it anyway.
    “Five million oak tree seeds
    doomed to die
    So one might live.”

    That’s not it, she said.


    She was alone
    A loner, she told herself
    When she needed to be.

    “The dark is a camera.


    The quiet is a canvass.”
    Delete, delete, delete
    She imagined the future
    Staring at this moment
    Keeping it on life support.

    Is this brave or stupid, she said aloud


    “All those seeds,” she wrote,
    “They are all brave,
    And all stupid,
    Without any hope.
    But I am no seed,
    I am the oak.”

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