tracery

twining tracery
like linking fingers create
a cathedral vault

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cedar

branches snaking down
reaching to lift passers-by
to tree’s topmost height

fall

tree shivering breeze
leaves cling resolutely but
they will fall, and freeze

trunks

like elephant legs
slow striding across landscapes
but going nowhere

true

from Saint Congar’s staff
grew one mighty tree, a yew
stuff and nonsense, no?

— Congar’s walking stick, Congresbury churchyard, North Somerset