The Inner Life of Trees
Feb 20 2022
We are learning that trees have inner lives.
That they remember, sense
speak among themselves.
Share resources.
Even care for their young.
Or am I merely a tree-hugging romantic?
Who prefers to shelter in the shade
of a cool dark forest
redolent of spruce,
like some feral animal
returning to nature?
No paper, no wood, no fire.
No harming our fellow creatures.
Which stand inscrutably
silent and unmoving
looming overhead.
Inner lives
we are blind to.
And as alien as if arriving here
from some distant planet
to make an Avalon of earth,
the Eden
that gave birth to us all.
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