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The Trees Are Sweating

Julia Pilowsky

The Trees are Sweating
they swelter from an unnatural heat
concocted in a thousand petrochemical fires
they cry the tears that melt their skin
they choke in the fog of a smoke-clogged night

The Trees are sweating
they are burdened with demands for their sturdy flesh
their predators besiege them and they can show no fear
and in their desperation they are sweating out their fright
but their sweating comes to nothing when they face a younger might

The trees are sweating
they were once gods and we were their worshippers
they were once masters of the earth and we cowered beneath them
we are young and proud, but they are old and wise
they knew your great-grandmother, and she knew:

the trees are sweating
their fear is for themselves but they pity for us too
for when our race dies, they will sigh, and grow another ring.
but when their kind dies, we perish in their carcasses -
embalm ourselves in carcasses of forests we once knew



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