Amelia Nicol
Tree.
Wind blown harsh from
the tops of trees
sinking rise
altitudes of significance change
the stature of a hill
Distances could seem
so insignificant
Mountains named account
supposed summit
Figures of unrest
bent shapeliness, form trees
standing to their similarities
or differences only, these dendrites
Formulate
the surface of something
the grit of a patterning
pith, years of density
or pressured sunken
Rises: beached logs
soaked through. Sediment grown in waves
lengthy shelving dropped to pressure
and roots grown through
Other ends
of the Earth. Holes dug so deep they reach
the other end of
the world
Here, impossible reach. The top of a mountain
the bottom of a mole hill, and faith could
