The Planting

In a dark time we planted a tree     we planted
a flowering crab-apple tree during a hard time
we planted it in our front yard     though in saying
we planted I mean we paid for the tree
at a nursery where not everyone believed
ours is an evil time   two strong men delivered
the tree in a truck   they dug a wide hole where
we asked them to   they rolled and lifted
the tarped rootball into the ground