THE LIFE OF TREE

The Life of Tree

This tree

is missing a huge piece of herself--

a maple tree with lightening driven

down through the center of her trunk.

Her arms dig, her legs shoot upward,

veins spread beneath the dark earth.

Limbs and roots expand among the green

and the blue, a plentitudes of shade.

And a bearer of fruit, she is,

each leaf a child of her heart,

fought with the dignity of no regret, and

one foot grounded in front of her callused helm.

TJKG