An Outline of Trees  - First Things

An Outline of Trees  - First Things

They rise above us, arching, spreading, thin Where trunk and bough give way to veining twig. We cannot find the place their lives begin, But know it spreads beneath us in the deep, Where grubs and earwigs curl and earthworms dig, Where milky wings enfold a decade’s sleep. We live beneath their verdant canopies; They frame our world and hold the earth in place. Even the sylvan darkness no one sees Pulsates its omens for the mind to fear, And, whe…