#1543 - a forest belongs to the world

 

1543

5.82

22.iii.24

a forest belongs to the world

 

the tree’s not mine

 

carve a name

the day grows over

 

it’s not to a tribe

or a national thing

there is no ‘family forest’

 

when the animal falls

all the woods ring

 

it’s at the edge of an idea

 

you kindle up a fire

you swing an axe

to frame the house

 

who lives by a tree

is come by claw

by wing

 

to plant a seed

and water, watch

make mulch

sometimes even feed

 

though perching high

one has no purchase

there is no contract parry

 

a forest is more fundamental than hope

it’s made of what love must first have grown from

 

steady as the sea to breeze

 

a tree is no one’s asset class

nor property of cash

 

a tree is far before us

 

the past performance

you’d read in the rings

requires the murder saw

 

other worlds won’t have them, you know

 

you’d be a fool to think

that any tree was ever yours

 

this is how it is for me

 

can’t you see

a forest belongs to this world