Sometimes I must do nothing. Not wash the sheets, not vacuum, just stare into the generosity of the Red Oak, whose loving indifference is achingly intimate. Her branches gnarled, hidden by green plumes desiring sun, wanting time to let be. What does she see of me thumbing a poem on a glass box to join the unfinished poems I leave in my wake? The tree smiles, today we are one, I in my green, you with a period at the end of your poem.