Waiting for a Message

Chickasaw Plum on La Chua Trail, Gainesville 

Trees help you see slices of sky between branches,
point to things you could never reach.
Trees help you watch the growing happen,
watch blossoms burst then dry,
see shade twist to the pace of a sun,
birds tear at unwilling seeds.

Trees take the eye to where it is,
where it was,
then over to distant hills,
faraway to other places and times,
long ago.

A tree is a lens,
a viewfinder, a window.
I wait below
for a message
of what is yet to come.

by Rochelle Mass, from Tree Stories: A Collection of Extraordinary Encounters

Riley and his friend Solly enjoying the Chickasaw Plum at the La Chua trailhead 

Comments

[Suna]

This poem is SO perfect for today. I keep reading it over and over again.