In the Distance of Space

An outline of left-behind trees

reveal larger timber

has been harvested for

paper-plates and newspaper sheets,

front-end loaders

bringing their prize

to lumbermen waiting  --

then loaded trucks

heading off to mills

with their catch-of-the-day.

A new-growth generation  

displays young limbs 

as birds of various sizes

sprint from castaway logs to

spreading branches, surveying

clear-cutting left by man -- 

nature continues to present

ravines of wonder,

clumped rock scattered

as puzzles upon the hillside,

shrubs in mottled colours

and hills over which sun

leapfrogs -- memories of today

safely tucked away.