upper trunk

One giant was decapitated, the upper trunk and branches strewn at its base in a tangled heap.

The limp is all but gone and the forward lean of the upper trunk is still there – but so are most of the lazy, rolling forehands into both corners, the savagely spun backhand saver under pressure and, most encouragingly, the hunger.

The Allegheny County medical examiner’s office said 18-year-old Martell Benton-Bridgett of McKees Rocks died of gunshot wounds to the upper trunk.

Rotted to the core, the tree had lived a long life - at least a century if not two - at the abandoned orphan cemetery on North Main Avenue, where the upper trunk and branches remain splayed across the sparse graveyard.

Power is derived from the rotation of the legs, hips, pelvis and upper trunk, the body passing energy to the arm.