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Chapter 15 - 15 - Where, Into, In and What

Where does the flower make

a bed?

Where does the briar wind

and bend?

The ground into which their

roots extend;

Like interlocking fingers with

the grip of tenfold vices.

Into which air does the scythe-

winged Jar cry?

In whose hour does the Tawny,

Long-eared

and Barn owls

hoot, chit and call?

The time of the stars between

dusk and dawn;

When the one that is at its

Zenith at noon illuminates other realms

between rise and set.

What drifts and weaves unseen through

an emerald canopy?

And carries a spiderling into the realm

above the clouds?

The one that dances across the

Beaufort Scales;

From One,

to Twelve,

and back again.

What has clean, elegant limbs

in winter;

Gains clusters of flora in the

midst of spring?

Followed by green apparel in

Glorious Summer?

Apparel that makes some resemble an

earthbound cloud;

That turns to citrine, crimson or gold

in autumn?

Trees,

Trees,

Trees and more Trees.