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December 09, 2003
The World Tree
My eyes aboard your massive beauty crane
to scan your tangled trellis, sprouting a
thousand green sails on your wing leaf mane.
You may as well be Yggsdrasil with squirrels gay
and romping root to root, messengers afoot.
The dirt in your endless cracking scars like soot
or rather jewels that feed the living from the dead.
I envy you, erected like a wood-carved fortress,
framing the outskirts of a certain upstate yard.
Your stalks, covered in life traipsing through your grooves profess
a kind of worldliness I cannot name, for lack of worthy words.
You bask in shreds of calm and strife
etching aged boughs against the graying light
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Posted by lisa at December 9, 2003 02:30 PM
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