EVERGREEN CODE OF THE WEST

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  • Express shots from earth to God
  • bold straight trunks, our branches
  • fragile afterthoughts useful only
  • for briefly collecting snow which
  • we may or may not let fall
  • as you pass among us,
  • if the wind visits,
  • if the temperature rises a degree or two,
  • if the weight begins to annoy.
  • You want to hang a swing,
  • build a tree house,
  • climb one of us for the view?
  • Do not mistake us for the amiable
  • eastern oaks you remember so fondly.
  • We are not here for your amusement
  • but for our own purposes,
  • which we are under no obligation to reveal.
  • Did you call us the-hell-with-you trees?
  • You seem to imagine your opinion matters.