<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 23px;">Life After Death</span></font><div class="single-grid"><div class="single-content"><p class="">These things I know:<br class="">How the living go on living<br class="">and how the dead go on living with them<br class="">so that in a forest<br class="">even a dead tree casts a shadow<br class="">and the leaves fall one by one<br class="">and the branches break in the wind<br class="">and the bark peels off slowly<br class="">and the trunk cracks<br class="">and the rain seeps in through the cracks<br class="">and the trunk falls to the ground<br class="">and the moss covers it<br class="">and in the spring the rabbits find it<br class="">and build their nest<br class="">inside the dead tree<br class="">so that nothing is wasted in nature<br class="">or in love.</p><p class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Laura Gilpin</p></div></div></div></body></html>