"Trees!" | 14

"I love them both" I said   he smiled dreamily
he'd seen the world in many & various guises
"I need some time for life to flow more streamily"
I added   did my tongue have more surprises?

"my tendency is   leap!   then finally   look!"
"I've noticed that"   laconically he spoke
"a hundred times or so   I quite mistook
some passing breeze   for permanence of oak"

"Ah oak!" he mused   "old poets at least knew trees!"
it wasn't quite like him to change the topic
"and if they wrote about the birds & bees
they'd studied them acutely!   how myopic

have grown their self-absorbed supposed heirs"
we both leaned on one bar   from differing chairs



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