If Trees Could Talk
(A Sonnet about To Kill a Mockingbird)
By Mariah, age 16, Minnesota
Sweet Designs Featured Writer
If trees could talk, this tree would walk.
Hand slowly caressed the tree's relic stump,
The branches and tree trunk long since sawed off,
In the aged ground remains a solid bump,
Hiding place for finds Jem and Scout did doff,
Cement chips decorate the earth below,
The evidence of Radley's past trial,
Concealing the treasures the tree did stow,
These lost trinkets were hidden with guile,
The cause for the hole will never be known,
Identity of hoarder won't be found,
Thievery - Atticus could not condone,
Here does stand a cement-speckled bark mound,
A reminder of events from the past,
The tree bark and cement shall always last.
