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One of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets!

A Two-legged Falls for Trees

I’m in love with white pine,

not just the guardian who hails

me on Rt. 17 by the old exit

river to Mooselookmeguntic

but every blessed pine I hear,

those beside the grocery,

the offices of Stony Batter

the Carry Road from Oquossoc

to Mooselook, those further

south above the Connecticut’s

floodplain: Every tree loves

in return, returning the care

and thought I give, my dreams

at night of spirits holding

steady holding me: limbs

and flesh an abiding body.