Cherries Again

"Either it will break, and after that it will die or it will die, and after that it will break." So spoke the soothsayer of the gardener’s sapling, on the day of the storm. The month of Khordad is on its way. The cherry tree has grown tall. The branches have turned red with the color of thousands of buds. The plump cherries are on their way within reach. The gardener had built a steel trellis around the slender sapling ...