August 17, 2016

WOOD

If the tree knew it was going to become 
a solid wooden dining room table - 
hearing hundreds and hundreds and

hundreds of supper talk, homework talk, 
tears, spilled milk; if it knew it would 
become a rich brown - very, very visible

- dining room floor or door; or part of the underneath of  a bedroom wall, then….

Then would it cry "NO!" when it was 
about to be cut down? Would it? Really.... 
When would wood scream, “Pick me!”? 
How about a cross? A toothpick? No. 
A chopstick? Well, maybe…. but tell me more?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2016