Pinecone

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck in the still of night.

~ Denise Levertov

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I am not sure why I like pinecones so much.  I am not sure if it the artistry of their design or the complexity of their form.  They are a single item but with lots of parts and pieces and places.  They are sturdy and have their own armor. 

I guess they are like us.  We are art walking around.  We are complex.  We have lots of parts and pieces and places - many of which most other people never get to see or know about.  We are sturdy.  We have our own armor.

And sometimes we get tired and just have to lie down on the ground.  Sometimes to reproduce, but hopefully not often do we do that in public like the lewd, crude, smutty pinecone.