Poem 6 (PD 23)

Alone,
Against a darkling sky,
Absence of leaves
Reveals the delicate tracery
Of branches impelled outward
By the orderly impulses
Of life,
Itself.

From: Impressions, Roger Cooper (poet), John Erickson (photographer)
Evergreen Press, Brainerd, MN, 2002
Photo by Jean Doolittle, 2013; on the road to Springfield, IL