Mother Trees and the Woodwide Web

Love grows surely in a frozen forest.

Root tips touch.

Nutrients pass along a mycorrhizal network.

Tiny threads of life stretch from robust conifers

to struggling saplings.

Mother trees stand tall,

sense stress

send water

block wind

alert to danger.

Oak, Maple, Hickory, Beech, Pine, Spruce and Fir

Rise together.

Spread their own branches.

Bear their own fruit.

Write their own stories.

And yet.

Deep down

Among roots twisted together through happenstance, hardship and hope

They help each other find the light.