Crown Shy

crown shy trees
             create craquelure
in the canopy above.

it’s the tree equivalent
             of pee shyness - a little
respectful room between

us, a few stalls apart,
             a gesture of graceful
distance. would that we,

like the trees, gave air
             & space to those around
us? how much more

sky would crown us?

Trunked*

We don’t know where “trunk” comes from.
The sense of being boxed in, as in a car
trunk comes much later, and is related to
the sense of trunk as container. For the
Body that would mean the wooden box of
our guts. For a tree it would be the guts of
their wood, I would think. All the boxes
that box us in, from the trunk: the cradle
& the coffin (the difference between
a casket and a coffin being its boxiness - a
casket has 4 sides & a coffin 6). All that
separates birth from death & all the
woulds in between. The nearest we know
is that “trunk” probably first meant “to cut
off”

Rooting

I
                  was
                                    rooting for
                                                                        you.
                                                                               We
                                                      were
                  All.                                                                                                   rooting.
                                    for
                                                                                                                                                                  you.

— Tyra Banks

*source: Etymonline