Sick! by Ari Daniels
Sick! by Ari Daniels

Sick! by Ari Daniels

Look at that tree! Struck by lightning

and just toppled over, dead.

Her crown has split, her sap is running, 

her bare roots exposed to the chill night air.

This is no shelter. 

Just one burning cold, freezing hot, decaying

darling Diva.