Gathering #1

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A Gathering of Trees
by Jennifer Lynn Dunlop

I survey you, my audience

            a gathering of trees

rows of umber, tawny sentinels

            welcoming, waiting

I have no answers

Trees do not loathe

            but neither do they love

prevailing stately and silent

We attempt communication

            awkward, ill-timed overtures

but when you touch me

it calms this strident tumult

assuages

my skin’s longing

your delicious pressure

            expansive bliss

Trees leave such stumbling gestures to us

love, the great experiment

            a human failure

but also,

the sweetest meaning

            the confused

joy