April Fool’s
almost missed
the subtleties of circle fractures
on the skin of the snow’s alabaster
As Gerrit Lansing told us
The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward
All life long/the dew falls from heaven
all life long/trees climb up from underground waters
Holding palm up on the unburnt trunk
of a Thunder Trails yellowleg pine
in morning tai chi — chanting
needles, rootlets, hyphae
News alive again
with Mar-a-lago shenanigans
like a desert howl before
a Rocky Mountain storm
Not surprised really
Irate, saddened. Some furious
li bingeing on outlaw fantasies.
We Americans love our bully pulpit puppets
