8 Ways of looking at trees

This is the collateral of a school assignment regarding Wallace Stevens

1

What Monstrous arms!

Streaming to heaven

Fire Dancing with Shivan urgencies.



2

You, my droll friend are as accessible as sleep.

Bush in your form

Rose in your mind.



3

There is a tree on

Fire

Above my neck

Rooting

To the tubercular sky.



4

Throw your pollen

To heaven

Baptize earth in spring

How the sap roars

With the hammer of nature.



5

Lonely old wet dogwood

You are the tree of the world.

Immortal

But for the snake gnawing your roots



6

At first instance of

Fruit

I lost my first

Gardener.



7

“Lift your skinny fists

Like antennae to heaven.”



8

To you we

Nailed the Roman's

Antichrist.