The tree always looks smaller in the open air, overcast sky low and misty and serene like Saturdays. Dozens of domesticated and pampered firs, blue and green and spritely, set in rows like debutantes. Twirl each one around on its trunk, measure it against the top of someone else’s head, smell that breeze of fragrance, see the needles tremble at the motion, pick one, any one, tie it to the roof of the car, bring it on in with the damp and the dirt and the pine straw, clean it

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Music is emanating from beyond the cathedral line of trees, a reverberating guitar, repetitions of drum and bass. Flickers of pollen are...