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The cypress tree in front of my new house
is blocking the view from my window.
Its knees are dry and look like they need lotion.
A pine tree that was in front of my old house is now gone.
But I can still remember the way the sap smelled as tangy as ear wax.
At the top of my magnolia tree it smells like the paper mills in Jacksonville.
The paper mills smelled as funky as rotten oysters
the day we drove out of New Orleans.
by Shelby,
8th grade
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