The Line Tree
It is odd to find
This rotten base, live wood curled over it
A hard scar, rolling in slow motion
Over the lifeless trunk.
I come closer to see.
Is this what trees do?
Do they seal off the wound
with living tissue
Get on with growing
Let the hopeless core remain?
It will go hollow one day
When the dead part has crumbled away
A home for animals
Quick claws clicking in the trunk.
One choice, tree: Grow, or die.
There will be a gnawing within.
I look closer, muddy clean knees
rooting for the why of it.
Here: The wire.
This good tree
a helpless fencepost
Sixty years later
Still paying for a man's careless moment.
posted by Julie Zickefoose @ 4:53 PM
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7 Comments:
Mystery solved! The bonus from you is a lovely poem.
That has to be one of the most intense wound healing efforts made by a tree that I've ever seen. And I love the way trees will grow around anything that man decides to put in their way.
Great poem Julie!
WAAHHHH your poem! I crown you The Bard-ess of Indigo Hill. Watch out Mary Oliver.
S.
I guess THAT tree doesn't need an adhesion meter.
(Sorry...couldn't resist)
What a testiment to the power of a tree and the persistence of life.
I will have to post a picture of a tree at the nature center...there's a steel pole embedded in it, and it looks like the tree has been growing around it for aobut 50 years.
Years ago I went to visit my father's home in Ohio. He had passed away and the place still owned by family was being rented out. I visited because my brother wanted me to look through an old storage shed in case there was anything I might want out of it. In the tree I remembered playing under as a child was a large crook and buried in the crook were three horseshoes that my father must have placed there 20 years ago...the tree had grown around them. Thanks for that walk down memory lane that your lovely poem brought back to me.
Trees are so cool. And so is that poem!
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