Can Trees Walk?

Can a tree walk?

Can she kick her rooted feet

right out of the ground?

Can untamed growth burst on the outside

with power greater than what held it in place?

Can a tree shake leaves into a cascading cloud?

as if to say, I'm not holding still any more.

Can bare roots stomp across the dirt

and make their thirsty way to new water?

Could a tree invite the wind

to blow lifeless limbs away

and keep only what is alive?

Can unyielding branches

learn to dance?

Is it possible for her to claim her own season?

not waiting for someone else to tell her

when it's summer.

She can burst into the full bloom of spring

even as fall winds stir and spin.

Yes, a tree can walk.