Trees...you shimmer...

Trees

                  you

shimmer in the

landscape

shades of

your former selves

etchings

lost in the tangle

of what lives still

behind you

remembering

long winters

exhanging glances

when snow

built bridges

between you

when spring

sang you

into greenness

your light

lingering past

dusk

                  you

are on fire now

your immolation

brief

your dirge

the keening

I hear

long into

my nights

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Trees...how little we know...

Trees



how little we

know

of what you do

how few

the thanks

we offer you

as we pass

oblivious

to the coolness

in your deeper parts

that costs nothing

but is everything

to those of us

who need the

air you clean

the water

to quench

our children's thirst

to banish winter

bring us through

spring

and summer

to that place

of color

as you ease into

fullness

as green gives way

to crimson

yellow

gold

as your hunger wanes

and you look

toward your

long rest

when your song

will soften

to a whisper

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