"A Tree Sees..." (an occasional poem)

Tom Wright celebrated his 93rd birthday November 22. He often publishes a poem about his window on the world and the tree he watches out his window. Here is a conceit with the tree watching him back:

A Tree Sees…

Behind its leaves

Into the windows that squint out upon the world,

Through bifocals, trifocals, and cataracts.

Theirs are the heroic faces of the septuagenarians,

the octogenarians,

and the merely elderly

but not yet old.

Not old like the tree that watches,

the observant tree,

whose life cycle has its own seasonal rhythm and perspective.

The human animals come and go.

The trees, stoic, rooted, stand fast and watch.