Tree Haiku

Tree Haiku

written by: Joshua St. Claire

 

spoken
with the palm’s voice
lost poems

first thunderheads rising
in the deep west
scent of chestnut blossoms

bent over
with age
this juniper

rooted in deep time live oaks

black walnuts in full leaf
I open right up
to Sonnet 18

killing frost
last light leaving
the lindens

the flat earth turning over a falling catalpa leaf

ginkgo leaves the paths we took

a line of white pines
in their blue shadow
contrails

the willow begins the green scent of loam

April filling in
the sugar maple branches
chromium green