From the corner of my gaze, I catch the spurts of newest pine-growth

Tender, softer than most

Like a lump of rising dough

Knead-ful hands will make it soon grow

And forge this Spring life into a Summer’s feast

Of freshly baked goods

A display of leaves and bark and trees and dawn

All spread out on this table

In these bakery-woods and beyond

 

anthony forrest 

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