Beneath the Tree

Jon Matteson
1 min readApr 28, 2020

Strength supports my back and spine
Drawn from the wisdom
of this cousin of pine.
I wonder nothing as I sit and wright,
My pages adorned
with green-yellow light.
How old he is. How straight and tall.
He still grows higher
as the leaves fall.
Nature’s pillar that never moves
Only uprooted by the tools we use.

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Jon Matteson

Artist, Writer, Poet, and too many other things that won’t make the list.