Eco-Logical

'Trees need their alone time too' I read it just now in a poem by Bob Hicok and just like that the world expanded thoughtfully and gloriously and I imagined the whole of nature giving a great sigh of relief like a dog does when it lies down for the night and a great sigh goes from the tips of its paws to its ears or of course it might be the other way around and trees with that sigh get on with their nightly cleansing routine and expel all the stuff that mankind has made them put up with in the world that we 'share' ha ha and then think about the poor trees in the park and the streets who've been passive smokers all day not to mention gas-guzzlers without the accompanying four wheels to enable them to getoutahere into the countryside for the weekend to **** that up too yes I'm sorry trees although I must say you do a good job of it and with silent patience and don't write complaining to the newpapers in a mass protest which is just as well as those papers need more trees so I was just almost feeling complacent that Nature seems to be well just about keeping the whole thing on the rails until I looked up at the tops of the tallest trees and saw the tops dying off and wanted right then to know if prayer would help because what else will and thank you Bob and I guess poetry too for half a line that brought me to the world and a laugh then tears.