// Superficial Summer//
I had a dream that I met a reluctant leaf. The leaf was implored to become a flower and then a bud and then a fruit. It shouted at the vine out of exhaustion and fear, “I only wanted to be a leaf, but you implored me so I became a flower and then a bud and now I am a fruit but I am so strained that I am about to fall! Why have you done this to me?” The fruit fell to the ground and sprouted to become a tree and the leaf said, “Forgive me.”
