Subject: A Bare Trunk
From: Christopher W. Thomas (creatician@poetic.com)
Host: 207-172-227-93.s30.as1.dnb.erols.com
Date: Thurs Feb 5, 1998 at 7:29PM

A Bare Trunk


On the way around the block this morn
Noticed a sight to dazzle eyes in the dawn
A tree trunk stretching right up to the clouds
Was bare of all its bark - don't know quite how

Not the usual apparition from ground to tip
But a main trunk which was fully alive to hip
But where it branched out with complete limbs
The main trunk continued upward, bare - it seemed

And then it just fizzled it out into a fork-like tine
With no more branches feeding off, after the line
How such a strange growth pattern could come to be
Is uniquely puzzling, and something way beyond me

- Tristram

Christopher W. Thomas
8:52am Tues. Feb. 3rd, 98

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