The Maple

Remove the artifice and what do we see? We see untapped maple trees, the bark stripped, the leaves sheared off with sharp, rough scythes; we see the foliage burned, birds, squirrels and spiders purged from the ranks of the living; bee hives splattered on the ground, roots torn out and strewn on the ground like intestines, we see grass uprooted and downrooted, we see rings of the trunk torn out and spread onto the ground beneath, we have violence, we have silence, we have fear and it is not near an end, but a beginning, untapped potential, unseen renewal of resources, energy unleashed into the Auburn sky above and wrapped around the whole of the forest, as what happens to one happens to all and to all to one until we get to the potentiality, the meanings, the energy: The Maple.