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Wisconsin's Winter Forest
"Tree has staked its claim,
anchoring itself firmly to earth.
Tree owns this place in the universe..."
(*note-- The Joshua Tree National Park is in southern California. We include the poem below because the sentiments expressed could be translated and expanded to include the feelings for the land that many in West Central Wisconsin may share. And because it is beautiful! The pictures are from West Central Wisconsin.)
Here we walk in the footprints of mountains.
These mountains are only passing by
cutting through waves of land like great ships
in their wake, they have even pushed the clouds away
turning this land into desert.
I know life was born of earth's ocean womb.
This piece of star dust is our mother.
Once I had the privilege of seeing rock come to life
its exposed strata pulsating like twitching muscle,
then poised, picture still, with only dust as a record.
Today I heard rocks echo the voices of men.
Even with that, I still cannot call rocks or mountains life.
There is a profound difference between life and the non-living.
It is the bias of being alive
that leads humans to see life in everything.
Today a coyote came right up to me with the pain of loss in its eyes.
All around me, humble shrubs ride these arid swells
expressing in miniature leaf and naked stem
their every intention
more revealing than poets.
And tonight
under the ground, in their tiny burrows,
even the smallest of animals make plans for tomorrow.
Only life, because it can die, gives purpose to its movement.
Life alone seeks in another to make itself again
and because purpose is a creed in our blood
we even ask why
do the mountains pass by.
