Scott Simpson · Poetry

Puzzle Trees

Use For Kindling · source pages 37, 38

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Source page 37

Puzzle Trees

Two trees,

leafed with green,

bend toward each other,

shaped

like conversation.

Not identical,

but fitting.

Source page 38

You bring your ring of scars,

I bring mine—

bark missing

where storms

once pressed hard.

But here,

we make something whole:

a canopy

stitched by shared light,

two crowns

rooted,

reaching.