WAITING FOR A MESSAGE
Rochelle Mass
Trees help you see slices of sky between branches.
point to things you could never reach.
Trees help you watch the growing happen,
Watch blossoms burst then die,
See shade twist to the pace of the sun,
Birds tear at unwilling seeds.
Trees take the eye to where it is,
to where it was,
then over to distant hills,
Faraway to other places and times,
long ago.
A tree is a lens,
a viewfinder, a window .
I wait below
for a message
of what is yet to come.
