Trees witness our lives.  This section is for work which speaks from a tree that lived through an era, witnessed a specific moment in history, or one from your own personal history. Inspiration for this section came from:

• The canopy of a sequoia during the logging boom.
• A tree sacrificed in an aborigine prescription fire.
• The Goethe’s Oak that stood just outside the fence of the Auschwitz Birkenau camp.
• The oak you would climb as a child.
• The bark of the paper birch during a forest fire.
• Jozef the Oak who hid two boys from the Nazi officers.
• The pine in your yard that housed a hummingbird nest during a stronger than usual windstorm.
• The pine of Bly, Oregon who holds shrapnel from a Japanese balloon bomb.

This section is open to visual art as well as poetry and prose of any form. Previously published and simultaneous submissions welcomed. Submissions always open.

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