While wandering about on the indigenous fringes of my property, I found Romeo and Juliet.
A
quick synopsis of their tragedy: two young lovers from feuding families fall
into a secret, desperate romance. Knowing they would not be allowed to embrace
in life, they instead embrace in death.
In
my local scrubland version of this tale, Romeo is a juniper and Juliet is a
rock. Romeo died some years ago and was upended by the elements, exposing his
tangle of roots. And this is where you find our Juliet, a smooth-sided rock
Romeo gathered gently into his roots when he was young. Even all these years
after death, Romeo still holds Juliet close.
I’m
sharing a photograph of my Romeo and Juliet.
The Embrace
—Mitchell
Hegman
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