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.
Green ash, slow and dense, weathered grey where it waited in the yard.
Read from the heart outward. Move your finger across the rings. Every ring is a year that actually happened.
River Road, St. Vital, above the Red. The pin marks the neighbourhood; the exact spot gets added from the salvage photos.
No pieces yet. Whatever comes from this ash will carry this page with it.