THE TREE IS HERE, STILL, IN PURE STONE

the tree is here, still, in pure stone, in deep evidence, in solid beauty, layered, through a hundred million years.

agate, cornelian, gemstone transmuted the timber and sap unit damp corruptions fissured the giant’s trunk fusing a parallel being: the living leaves unmade themselves and when the pillar was overthrown fire in the forest, blaze of the dust-cloud, celestial ashes mantled it round, until time, and lava, created this gift, of translucent stone.

~ Pablo Neruda