i chose my forest
and picked my tree

climbed her boughs
as high as I needed

sat on a branch
and began to sing

listened long
for the forests songs

the birds and spirits
of poets

the songs of crickets
and the stories

-of man, Red Riding Hood
the Three Bears

the three little pigs
and Jack and the Bean Stalk

the Pied Piper
who took my heart.