Coon Dogs Treed the Wrong Animal

leaf predicted
oak told no lies
to the juniper that pined

gossip berries
flavor the gin
giving the bird a flip

zipper spruced up
her fingers tasted
like maple

walnut bed frame
nailed the bible
between the cedar slats

knotty pine
sap dripped
her thighs enlightened

a tree
can be many things
nature is an open-air church

steeple seen
for miles beetle killed
the prayer

woman lights
the fires to burn
the forest clean

coon dogs
treed the
wrong animal

horus appears
with the head
of a falcon

wearing ash
and poplar in
a prophecy vial

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