How the pine tree came
to be
integral to Newton's
birthday
is unclear.
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One would expect, from
legend,
an apple tree; or an ash,
for Yggdrasill, that his
theories
replaced.
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Whatever the reason,
fitting,
that families gravitate
on this day of
remembrance
to its evergreen
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Fitting, the delicate
orbs
we hang on it, evoking
planets,
evoking the undone
crystalline
spheres.
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Fitting, the way the
ornaments
divide and play with the
light,
and also the day, coming
so soon
after the increasing of
it.
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Fitting, the season
resolves about money,
for he was
Master of the Mint.
—Timons Esaias