Do we remember trees? The thrill of screens - The scrolling cast of Characters in greens And blues and scarlets Flash and key our Focus away from leaves. Or needles. Or the Hard-grown, textured bark And bit of anything Without a pixel count. Should we neglect the veined Miracle of Photosynthetic Energies from light, the very Substance of our bodies? Even as our potted plants Disintegrate on the sill, Sans water, sacrificed for our Synthetic, gigabit/day flow? That flow will not feed us. Will ...

Do we remember trees? The thrill of screens - The scrolling cast of Characters in greens And blues and scarlets Flash and key our Focus away from leaves. Or needles. Or the Hard-grown, textured bark And bit of anything Without a pixel count. Should we neglect the veined Miracle of Photosynthetic Energies from light, the very Substance of our bodies? Even as our potted plants Disintegrate on the sill, Sans water, sacrificed for our Synthetic, gigabit/day flow? That flow will not feed us. Will ...

Life trails behind me A scrappy sweep of leaves I’ve trodden through - A path which reads My footprints sunk In sodden ground - A broken opening through Undergrowth, where Only I have trekked - What trees I’ve passed Beneath! What meadows Graced by foot? Has the path meant Anything so far? I gaze into that Foggy copse that calls Me forward. Will I find my way? Do treasures before me Lay in undiscovered Vales, unthought, undreamt? To be?

Life trails behind me A scrappy sweep of leaves I’ve trodden through - A path which reads My footprints sunk In sodden ground - A broken opening through Undergrowth, where Only I have trekked - What trees I’ve passed Beneath! What meadows Graced by foot? Has the path meant Anything so far? I gaze into that Foggy copse that calls Me forward. Will I find my way? Do treasures before me Lay in undiscovered Vales, unthought, undreamt? To be?