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let's make
forest
it's not too late
you could start with a garden
let go
anything grows
I live in a forest
the creatures come
spring and all abuzz beginning
make a season of it
it's so many kilometers this way
and this many legends across
read here all the names
the map grows over
you grow in too
autumn faded
barely need your spectacles
but bring some music
best of timber strung
here's the tall fellah
come down for a tune
to sing till time is done
one muses
knowing that it cannot be
are we then consisting of trees?
look up
ants have away with us
so summer says
look down
the clouds are gone
let's make
forest
how hard can
it be?
all the
equipment is lying around
come weather!
come worms!
and the news beams in
from world-out-there
low growl
crawl in!
be blown!
and do take flight!
some birds
are larger than the sky
some skies are more than this world
and here we are
an inch below
I live in a forest
the creatures come
I can do what I damn well like there
some are full-furred
some are bald
some days beat the forest back
it comes as fire for instance
don't like to kill or cut or burn
more than required
but the forest
is a risk
just as much as you are
fuel's truth to rage
like leaves dry piled
sun struck
or stormy of it
lay under
like winter filed
for reference
and then of course there is the us
the too-many
everywhere-ones
that's how we are known I think
I am always returning to the forest
in the city have whiff of it
if only memory
some keepsake gumnut
gracing desk
the makings of the forest
are all apiece of this
can't help
be of a breeze
and sunshine sought
I won't chase you there
live and let
the forest makes us eyes
all lift
by wing
or otherwise
buzz about
and lost to leaf
a heart sough wheeze of tree sway
of the forest dancing
and in the still to come
song touching
gently as the first rain
the forest makes us
let's make some
there's not much knack
it's not too late
to stop
and wonder
is it not lovely
to land
to perch
to poke about
get a view
through branches
?
it's not what I mean
matters
just look up
you'll see
this is magnificent, Kit!
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