The Tree Cutters

not just about trees

Roadside trees falling to the bottom of the sea,

orange moonmen with profiles of edges and plastic,

buzz like angry bees, so I crouch lost and wordless

in the middle of the earth,

under the forest, under moss, behind roots,

but having small stones thrown into my eyes,

am unable to look upwards,

standing ashamed in my fern grave,

trucks rumble past, even a massacre of pigs

would leave them unconcerned, runed,

coloured with the names of distant places,

edges of strange towns alongside sand and gravel 

and the radio in my car lights green,

fighting to regain sanity, helpless,

all meaning down to a pulse, reason

is sick this morning, just a lost voice. 

Reviews

[An Ordinary Woman]

Somebody up the road from us has a logger cleaning them out...So far just a wide muddy path through the trees. I can hear the trees cracking and falling all day. I hate it. So close to home.

Your poem tells of much more, the bigger picture, really. I wish I had it in my power to change that, just can't figure out what that might.

Certainly a beautiful but haunting poem, it sure made me think.

And thank you for that.

[h d e rushin]

I like poetry where everything happens. Thats it Leslie. Poetry should take
you places, not leave you in unknown places..I enjoy your poetry so very much.
thanks for sharing...hder.

[The Jay]

The last stanza is so good that it almost overshadows its predecessors.

[Judas Hammer]

I was in the woods and on the road. Way to paint a picture. Very nice thank you

[Ed Hart]

then they grind up the trees to make the paper to fill our mailboxes with junk offers...meanwhile the giving trees give and give until the last tree standing gives up the ghost, amen

i really enjoyed this write i loved the imagery alot.

[Matthew Smith]

"Reason is sick this morning, just a lost voice."

I think I'm a fan of your words. Almost feels like I could've written it myself, though with much lesser eloquence. Much better than my own, judging by the two poems I've read.

And thank you for your review.

[Droll Prole]

woah this took me right out of the norm and into a strange and alien landscape of forests, destruction and weirdness.

[Whiskurz]

The imagery in this was off the charts......Whisk

[Emily B]

i might have driven through words like these once, but they didn't follow me home