Hello again! I seem to have taken my usual summer sabbatical. Today’s “fall weather” has me back in the swing of things, I guess. Here’s something I wrote yesterday. We’ll see if “Indian Summer” keeps me from doing more!

“Tree Roots/Life Water”

A tree grows

In the middle of

the stream

The rushing waters ebb

and flow

around it

Sometimes threatening to tear it

from its precarious hold

on the earth

and its life

Sometimes retreating

leaving it stranded and

Alone

The tree lives

for the waters

and fights

against them

The struggle

deepens the roots

and the branches

Grow

​

Daniel J. Cox

08-28-2018