One place understood helps us understand all places better.

Eudora Welty

Monday, April 12, 2021

Climbin' Tree


In the basin
I saw the trees
and not the forest
The limbs
and not the leaves

How one was ramrod
straight
How another
bent

I chose a tree
for climbin'
Passing by hundreds
more or less

I guess they were
all pretty much the same
but a climbin' tree
is best.