It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!
trees are hinge-cut
& left to bow
to the wind
to sever
& where the new growth begins
stump-sprouts at deer height
for feeding for thicket building for quail & rabbit to hover
thickets & thickets & thickets through the forest
underbrush to nurture & protect
young leaves the most nutritious
but read on
this is done for hunters bait for a sure thing an easy shot
when the thickets are full
let’s say I could still save us
let’s say at the hinge cut in cross hairs whatever bloomed
would feed us
Ann Dernier is a poet, and managing editor at Kore Press, currently on sabbatical. Her collection, In The Fury (Grey Book Press) was a finalist for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry and a semi-finalist for the Crab Orchard Series for Poetry First Book Award. She received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Poems, publications and more at anndernier.org.