Reverenced Trees

By Elly Potamianos

When the fire falls and covers a plush green carpet with a burned flutter, the undisguised bare limbs surface to aid the smallest of creatures,

Extensions hover and linger ghoulishly through the impending wind, while the trunk unveils its’ apertures,

Such accommodating centered strength preserves and sustains prosthetic structures, while evasively intrudes and disassembles,

Yet the oxygen has cleared, the fruit, shade, flowers, spores, and cones will return,

An umbrella shade will reconstruct and the tallest earthly growth will continue to provide a stationary foundation that is now inextinguishable.