John Taggart
Unveiling/Marianne Moore
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Skinny tree sparsely branched lacking
a felicitous phrase to begin

bark of the tree snake-barked maple Acer tegmentosum

striated
chalky white vertical stripes grey-green patches around/behind

crimson branch tips in winter chalky white striped trunk then branches
sparsely
ending in narrow in tapering tips pairs of buds bird
beaks along the tips

a vivid thing

understory tree
its story what’s under what’s vivid
her story what’s crimson what’s white

neither the eiresione nor daphnephoria

not any kind of bringing in the tree story rather the reverse
bringing oneself to the tree

oneself
myself to her
myself to her self in stop and start in stop and restart animation

in winter when you can see your own breath

sound of one’s footsteps in the

snow the only sound.