Charismatic Oak Tree

23/06/2013

This tree older than language

Older than the word tree

Older than the word acorn

The word climb The word moon

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This tree its branches a frozen dance

Solid rivers then slender streams then

Trickling twigs stretching back

Towards their source

So to our words

Etched against an echo of the sun

Should yearn towards nakedness