Bark, Archive, Splinter [“Is it possible to come to the figuration of trees as late as this”]

Bark, archive, splinter


Is it possible to come to the figuration of trees as late as this


Etiolated scholia


You were late, delivering this cankerous hazelnut to him


A branch snap can conjugate as much danger as a virus


Translating the distance of palms between rupture and rapture


You show him a study about how tree growth correlates to cosmic radiation once native to distant stars


So tell me this


From your walk, you discovered a cloistered chink, a gold leaf, a bolus, a grackle, some veronica, a little article, a making


–––––––––––––––––––––archived


What does second nature mean to you


Making up for lost space

Source: Poetry (July/August 2026)