Lessons on Leaf Lorn Logs

There were lessons

left on leaf-lorn logs

in lost languages

but leaning between the lines

he believed the Beloved

had begun a better

and necessary day

longing and belonging

for community and comfort

beneath and between

the Birch and the Beech

the Walnut and the Willow

and the grace-like story

of the understory

and the Moss and the Maple leaves

and all the wildland woods

had begun to tell a tale

of Winter's Rest