'Water Tree'
The Tree of Life, a ‘water’ version
Water cycling through all Life
it’s raining again, another easterly
a damaged possum was in the garden yesterday,
falling over wobbly, with lots of fur missing
in the morning he was lying dead in the patio-
we didn’t see him until it got light
i felt sorry for him (though possums are my ‘arch enemies’)
i buried his body next to the purple kale
and found a clump of chives
pushing up new shoots through the mulch.
the vegetable kingdom can teach us alot
about life and death-
i though the chives had gone,
all scratched up by the chickens-
but plants die and rebirth regularly
so they ‘know’ the deeper truth…
the purple kale will thrive on the possum’s molecules
once liberated to soil by worms and micro workers
and the cycle of life continues…
we with our heads in cloud
have also our roots in earth
and rain in our hearts.
