This Only Tree
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Once a tree
That walked as man
Tasting breezes moved
In seed with currents
Tossed to churning seas
Branching footprints
Sinking upward
In a breath
Of stars and moon.
Time the poison potion taken
For bones excused as broken splints
Shadows walking sideways into suns
Anchored belly born to new eclipse
Voices silent spoke of him
Without a sound from lips
Tongue to tongue
Tasting flakes of kissing snows
Trapped and bleeding
With the chore of laughter
From each gun,
Wandering songs unsung;
Nocturnal dramas lavish hand
Stopping all external movement,
Breaking in a bended way
All bodies lost -
Like hot fists pounding in summer sand
Like lost hopes sifted, drifting
Blowing through the fingers of each hand,
And he will walk as man
Once before,
Again.
Copyright © Vernon Witmer | Year Posted 2021
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