A Tree
Touch a tree!
Feel the scabrous skin
painted with moss--
shadowing blue to green.
Touch the leaves--
mature and tender shoots!
Touch the roots
where they fall
below the ground.
Feel it all,
every aspect
and tell me what
it is you have found.
See it
as a whole,
and then in part.
See it
not by eye and hand
but with the heart--
And then,
and only then:
tell me
what it is
you truly see?
Tell me
what it is we call...
A Tree?
Dean Schreck is a retired and relocated Long Islander who has been writing since the age of fourteen. His work has appeared over the years in Zephyr, Voices International, Literary Hatchet, New Myths, Penumbric, Magical Blend, Owlfight, WeirdBook, Penumbric, Eldritch Tales, Littoral, Space and Time, New Myths, Trembling with Fear…to name a few. He has also done work in Comic Books–Bloodscent (Comico 1988); Twilight Zone #7 (Now Comics 1992) and 2 Tales for Marvel/Epic Hellraiser series. Dean is a long time student of the spiritual and paranormal.
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