once forest creatures

david woodward

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like a battered
& weathered & beat
up old bible

                      from over-use & hostility

i come to you

                        eager, young sapling

growing impatiently
beneath the canopy
waiting for the sun
in your shadowy

world where no one
yet knows you

                           or sees you

potential tree
potential me

                       once a tree

many trees in fact
before the written word

                                         fell hard
on you.

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David Woodward

aka un-known, is a former field biologist. At last count his miniscule yard held 39 trees. Though with little space to reach their full growth potential, he knows their true value lives beyond space. un-known is proud to be a part of a larger network of writers who instill him with hope in the natural world.