oak.
solid ancient tough
golden variations on green
beautiful simple complex
the sound of the word
synesthesia by intent:
taste it on your tongue
hear it on the land
see it in a field substantial
might on a grassy plain
head of leaves singing green
touching rigid massive trunk
dreaming of tortoise growth
in twelve years it attains height
in three hundred substance
at ninety-seven, grampa
observed two days before he died
that he used to play in that oak
and it had not changed.
oak.
