THE FADED ROOT
The thing about roots is that they are the only part of a tree that grows in darkness. They reach deeper when there is no light. They spread wider when no one is watching. You can stand in a garden for forty years and measure everything that rises—the height of oak trunks, the colour of birch bark, the way magnolia opens in May like a white lung breathing spring—but the tree is mostly somewhere...
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