February 1, 2023

Tree Murmuration by Andrea Ferrari Kristeller

Leave flocks synchronize cloud-like
their formations shape
a change of pace in the sky
the urge to fly, windomized

Treetops merge and swell and splinter
from root trunk dependencies
as if they did not understand belonging

Leaves dream they are the birds they sheltered

They rehearse a choir of fricatives
sibilance becomes deafening

Do they practice autumn?
They seem to murmur something
that sounds like leaving

Seeds listen




Andrea Ferrari Kristeller is an Argentinean teacher, writer and naturalist. She often travels to the rainforest in Misiones, near IguazĂș Falls, and writes mostly poetry and science fiction stories set in these lands. Some of her poems have been published by several different American and British magazines, as well as her short stories.

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