Melancholy in the trees

Oh! Brian! Look at the trees!

Mar 24, 2025

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This may contain: a bare tree with no leaves in the snow — ©Michael Kenna

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Bent-knuckled, these three 
witches meet again: Eye of 
newt to globular earth/ turned 
by their rooting/ mixing to 
matter/ owned by labour until/
planted/ it shakes into being. 
Consumptive trees -
limbed into lungs/ veined across
blue/ cracked by their reaching. 
Tubular trees/ bubbling from 
their bark/ rounding at their hurts/ 
knotte…

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