Conversation with a Tree
by David Dephy

Night is fading.
Somewhere a voice echoes.

Dawn floods in from afar
and I fix my eyes, place my palms
on the gnarled skin of an oak tree.

I feel the light channel through her veins
as the north wind tears away her leaves.

“It’s how I fly,” she murmurs.

“Who can survive all their desires?”
I ask. “Most of us just can’t get
through them.”

“And who can see you?”
The tree replies.

“Only those of us who feel
the light all the way
down into our roots.”

image source: Video “Bark of an Oak Tree”

David Dephy  A Georgian/American award-winning poet. The winner of the 2019 Spillwords Poetry Award, the finalist of the Adelaide Literary Awards 2019 for the category of Best Poem. He was named as A Literature Luminary by Bowery Poetry and The Incomparable Poet by Statorec Magazine. His works have been published and anthologized in the USA, UK, and all over the world by the many literary magazines, journals, and publishing houses. He lives in New York.