Count its years.
Read from the heart outward. Move your finger across the rings. Every ring is a year that actually happened.
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Touch the wood to begin.
Ages are approximate until the rings are formally counted. The years are real either way.
Lake-country wood, deeply weathered. Manitoba is losing its ash; this one gets to stay, as something else.
Read from the heart outward. Move your finger across the rings. Every ring is a year that actually happened.
Gimli, Manitoba. The pin is the exact spot, read from the GPS in the photo taken on the salvage visit.
No pieces yet. Whatever comes from this ash will carry this page with it.