a day spent
on a book of trees

ash and aspen
almondmaples
and sycomore fig
walnut redwood
willow laurel
white birch, spruce, fir
acacia pine and banyan
elm linden
palm cedar
myrrh hazel
hawthorn
cypressjuniper
applemyrtle
orange oaks
mulberry pear
pacific rosewoods
sweet chestnut
yellow showers
rain trees

i am staying. slowly munching on a day, perched on a branch of dreams. shelter, sense and solitude crowned to the windtides. the bells toll a reading to its close. unchanging. loose leaves falling on forestground. a nearness receding, shading their common sun.