Pointy ones; bent-over mountain crack trees; cornfield oaks; big trees which are bigger than your puny vehicles; trees that have never touched a human nor intend to; pre-books; orchard trees held up with sticks; those that topple houses and those with houses in them; trees whose branches make a great dappled cave; trees marching on in limber ranks to the horizon; formal flowery ones; those that drop hard things on your head; that block the neighbours’ view; that have a rotten heart full of beetles; trees made tiny by art; those that grow from ruins; that are ruins; that drop charcoal fragments into the sea; whose saplings will outgrow them; spiral trees at the heart of wooded valleys, offering no way back; those that trap dinosaurs in amber; those that grow despite all efforts to remove them; that whisper secrets in the wind.
