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          KAREN KNIGHT

     Living the Tree-House-Person Test

 

  

                         I draw pictures of trees

                         on sheets of paper

 

                         place my hands on the trunk

                         of Maple, ask it to let me

                         ride out this storm

 

                         string a hammock between

                         two branches of Oak

                         with no awning to stop a sunshower.

 

                         Eighteen feet off the ground

                         I play my harp on the deck

                         of a Pasadena Willow.

 

                         In my Franciscan retreat

                         I sleep in a Douglas Fir

                         with french doors open to the sky.

 

                         I draw trees that won't come

                         crashing down on me,

 

                         forgiving trees.