FULL MOON ON TOP OF A CHAMPAGNE PALM'S TIP

it is safe when
you are only descriptive

trees are trees sometimes
and trees as simple emotions

could be. It is safer that way
when you say it is green

and tall, and scented like a pine
and conversational like a friend

one morning during a walk
with a dog, and then

breathe its essence and then say
this is hope for me,

but keep yourself on line
with sincerity, only to the essence

it is just a tree and i
am just like everybody else

nothing special like that
tree which is too just itself.