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Celebrating Poetry and Fiction
The Poem for the month of December is "Questions for a Tree"
Questions for a Tree
How do you
Remain so still
As the ground shifts
Beneath your weight?
Resolute, tranquil
In the driving rain:
How do you know
The rain will end?
How do you
Remain so calm
As vicious drought
Begins its onslaught?
The wind breaks your arms,
The living rip your hide
But you are resigned . . .
The storm approaches:
Where is your fear?
Chained to the ground:
Where is your rage?
Your skin is scarred
And so is mine;
Lower your branches,
Wrap me in leaves
Lift me up,
Carry me.
"Questions for a Tree" first appeared in Wild Roof Journal (November, 2022)
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