Caressing her steam from the trunk
Hugging her clouds from her crown
The heart blood is trapped in sap
Awash in the beams, lasers of light
through veins of amber rings
through veins of amber rings
Slice the pillared shadows
Spraying musk that bursts
bark rust forth,
settling for dew
likewise, hanging on
to every loose end.
bark rust forth,
settling for dew
likewise, hanging on
to every loose end.
She breathes you in
as you pass
A sapling too slight
to care whose airs
of mutual aqueous
evanescence is about them
re-membered reaching
and thirsting for the light
to rein down atop our crowns.
and thirsting for the light
to rein down atop our crowns.
Photo of Redwoods By NPS Photo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.