The Cathedral of the Trees

By Jill Dolphin

Poetry-in 3 sections: Nature-Love-Everyday events and universal truths

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jill Dolphin
• Release date: Mar 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9781778117107

Jill Dolphin

Someone who likes bicycles, classical music and jazz

Book preview

Section One-THE CATHEDRAL OF THE TREES

The crows fly

Through the evening sky

Like so much cinder

Blown out of a smokestack.

Sparrow

You do chatter

Like there has been

A major event

To startle the world.

A gull pauses

And takes flight

I follow with my eyes.

The language of forest

Spruce! Spruce! Spruce!

Interrupted by sociable birch

A clique of torn bark slapping

In the midst of higher branches

Of sweeping pine

Directing air currents

Move along-move along

And maybe they do

When I am not looking.

The river in early evening

After the thunderstorm

Has put on a dress of grey mist

With a fleck of green

Stitched into the seams

Ready to go out dancing now.

I hear her laugh.

Rain, a little at a time

Covers the steel fence.

I look to see the water