09-27-2011, 06:53 PM
This is an excellent poem. A unique concept explored with elegance and focus. The way you personify the trees is subtle. They're neither benign or especially malevolent, but like neglected creatures haughtily opposed to how they're at once used and ignored. Like a woman whose grandchild expects his five pounds every birthday but never wants to be with her.
Thanks for the read, Traveler
Thanks for the read, Traveler
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe

