story – Leaf And Twig

Reading The Forested Landscape

a sunbeam reached down
and wrote the road
that told of summer

in cursive and in print
rain writes her story
on ice and snow

the future is uncertain
but for this
together we go on

the story of summer
written in winter
told by the fall

the insects path
tell
the woodland’s story

listening to the water
share the story of
refreshment

garden wonderland
falling up
the foxglove

three
installments of
the pumpkin’s tale

the story
twice told
self and shadow

water is the earth’s skin
wrinkled by the cold
marks and ridges telling time
the oldest story ever told

time and weather
write the story
of survival on the structure

With only its curvature telling its story
a tree rights itself against unseen forces.

The gnarled tree
holds the history and tells the story
of the woods.

Listen closely.