Monday, September 14, 2020

Tales From Sycorax's Wood

 Once split, twice shy, the tree

Will not disclose the plight

Of those condemned to be

Embedded out of sight.


They never speak of her.

Whatever once occurred

To make a prisoner,

No one will say a word.


Only the bark is warm,

In places bark is not,

And when lush Carpo’s storm

Shakes the wood, the lot


Of trees exempts such places,

No motion and no sound,

No sense of human faces,

Except the wetted ground.

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