Pruning Burning Bushes by Sarah M. Wells

Author:Sarah M. Wells [Wells, Sarah M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781630879136
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2015-03-26T07:00:00+00:00

Measuring Rings

Settle your shifting vision on the maple stump

your son is standing on, growing out

of all your ancient history. The past keeps repeating

in new rings, health you measure by breadth.

You count the number of times you’ve grown

out of the fire, layers of heartwood healing

over scars, new branches jutting from woundwood.

Stop searching for ways to hollow out your trunk.

It is hard to distinguish redemption from regret;

you must see heartwood for what it is—dormant,

but solid—here only so you have something

to grow on, matter to attach your sapwood.

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