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humming trees | a poem

a poem about humming trees. check out the book whose words i stole: http://bit.ly/FALAQS this video is sponsored by Penguin Random House UK to promote From A Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan - all opinions are my own ✌🏼 let me tell you something about trees: they understand my favourite word. empathy i can hear them say it in the cold relieving air silent and still. empathy is what they’re whispering when they don’t say anything at all listen listen, they ask each other listen to me and ill listen to you that’s the heavy quietness that you hear in a forest when you walk under their shadows it’s their empathy raining pressing down on you a tiny creature from the earth to understand. to share. to know that every body your body, my body washes forks waits for mail thinks about endings. but back to the trees who live in the mantle of the earth or maybe they dont but seem to. how low do those roots go, deepening planting foundations for standing still. all of that work, just to stand still. stillness makes things worse, never moving never growing, so it isn’t stillness, i guess, but humming. the slow and even tempered moving stillness, alive and shaking stillness. a ceaseless hum, that’s what the trees know. that’s what they do. that’s why they love my favourite word. ☞ My website: https://www.arielbissett.com ☞ Instagram:   / arielbissett   ☞ Support me on Patreon:   / arielbissett