Sapwood Poems - Poems about Sapwood

...This world we inhabit, a giver of life That on the surface is so rife, Akin to a tree’s cross-section, A thin cambium bound by natural selection. The atmosphere the outer bark that protects L......Read the rest...

...I heard the dreadful Dryad's scream As axe bit into woody flesh The sap oozed out as scented cream My veins stood out in rictal mesh My wits all scrambled left me quick My hands and face were ......Read the rest...

...The wild hair of the trees lay down on the ground. Others burn up in a blue smoke. The severed branches in small heaps. I saw, in the middle of the sawdust, The pieces of the great plane tree, ......Read the rest...

...Subtle comes the mourning In light laced with night Like concentric circles forming In the Forrest's biography of life For children grow in truth like trees It's lesson is wisdom's offering Spiral l......Read the rest...