I stepped by the mythical tree
whose branches dressed in copper
whose arms reach out ever upward
trained on the ghost of Jacob Marley
her boughs and sprays convolvulate
lavish, adorned, purpled of paradoxicality
awkward, leaning jester, dried humour
paleontological quest, invigorating
opportunistic discovery is therefore
cloaked, camouflaged within context
of the whole mass, yearning, silent
bar the wind-rush, by the complexity
of nature’s intelligent transformation
a-corned fruit, spiralled propellor seed
whose fascination is in the germination
whose warmth, moisture, conception
like all living organisms gestate to birth
the genius of genus, myth to reality
the beauty of the aged tree who liveth
long as livid love its roots reaching down
down the soddy seam of nutrientology
the muddied stream of inherited ecology
fond form, fantastic, forever faithful folia
I adore thee as the life you gender
your appropriation as a financed institution
rich in mineral wealth you become the lender
treecreepers, apocrita, squirrels, leaf litter
excretions by your mother-heart pupendum
natures soldiers you shall live on longer
while the battles rageth

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