Truong's mother treasured persimmons deeply. When in season, friends and family would bring them for her mother, who would always encourage the artist to eat them. The persimmons appear as abstracted shapes across the top of the painting, their tree serving as a symbol of perseverance and spiritual connection. Rendered in her mother's favorite color of lavender, the bird's form represents freedom—untethered to any land, yet its head transforms into the tree itself. The bird's three tails create an inverse of Cerberus, the three-headed dog guarding the underworld, establishing the bird as a spiritual being.