Tree

Without need of closer inspection trees line up.

Mind enjoys the shapes, the lines of their trunks

Original profusion of their foliage.

Early birds make noises flying between:

Currawongs, wrens… Slopes mown against fire.

Thoughts turn to minutest details hereabouts:

Descendants of rail-sleeper trees, back-fence trees

Textbook branching of leaf-filmed blue-hinted trees

Bark-splintering heights, short-lived florescence

Business-like silken timber ringed-interiors

Flame-bursted flame-endangered giants

About the house from riverside to high ridge,

Mind transformed into stillness and wonder

Upon meditation of green being, growing again.

Photograph: At the back of the house at Wye River in September 2019.