#2307 - when I was a tree

 

2307

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25.iv.26

when I was a tree

 

is it so long since

when you were

 

this was an effortless thing

 

and all the choices of heaven put out

with cloud and falls of leaf

with light

 

when we were seed

and sought a sky

then o then, mindless

upwardly mobile

 

traffic of paw and claw

of up cargoes into night

 

all directional the day

 

much lived in we were

ask the bird

 

as off on a wish, let’s say

 

the world ran shabby round

nor true nor false

but all between

 

rain to jewel tip

if a sun

 

that was when we shone