2023
30x30" (includes black deep wood frame, 34.5x34.5")
SOLD
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