Surveying the Storm

variety of size, limbs once helpless in the wind, a haphazard torrent of leaves. no pleasantries in rescind. moss, plush with bouncy roots tripartite surgery of bark, sans clean cut. ground level hallmark apartments, at close inspection, varmints inhabit an oak. how do trees survive the dark when susceptible to croak? the yard with all its idiosyncrasies, a social distancing playground for a curious player of minecraft — a five year old’s hardly earthbound. 4/17/2020