talking with trees

talking with trees

based on words from Philip Larkin's "Talking In Bed"

talking words into the trees is easiest

when you and I agree that

leaves and bark listen people aren't honest

wanting more and more to hear less outside,

phrases are incomplete until tall pencils

scratch the clouds sky-

high above towns poems rush the horizon

though no one cares but us nothing can match

that moment our distance closes

leaf becomes a greedy ear to catch

the words our true mouths utter

or perhaps an eye but always patient