#1329 - first notes towards a tree

 

1329

22.viii.23

4.235

first notes towards a tree

 

a tree survives so much

these years

 

grows taller than the day

                            to tell

and we ourselves see through to sky

 

tree’s all up down traffic

visible invisible

 

all magic till the axe

until our fire

the scorn of saw

 

we call it breath

it’s better

 

it must be inward of idea

 

as far down as always up

 

tree is reaching beyond heaven

tree is delving deep

 

even in the seed there’s height

and every sky before

 

there was no word to conjure

but climbed down

first to see

 

just to see where we were

 

each alien landing

as othermost we are

 

every book’s made of

as is the final report on the forest

 

if ever the old forgiving

this

to walk among them so belong

 

now we ask

if tree will hold all hearts

 

what silent standing then to breeze

how everyone plays part

 

nor is tree occasional

but all day all night Christmas

 

we were born to it

 

and all the weeks and months and hours

 

look up and I acknowledge