FURTHER

it is amazing
what pressure pushes
a sapling through the soil

think I read a poem
about that once

furthermore,
it”s amazing, history tells us
how slowly, when the poets are
gathered to watch,
the leaves fall

and how they blaze
drifting downwards
less earth
      in their nature
more air, and fire,

history tells us too
all you need to know
about mythology
      and meaning of tree

how trees weep, bow, fling
out there arms in joy

or gather, in deepest irony,
to watch us
      at our darkest

knowing how, in sacred
                              fable
we once fell

observe us, the chemistry
of rebirth
      locked into
their sap

       fall further, much further