I spoke with
the tree-man,
and he told me
how deep his
roots buried
into the Earth;
connected
through moss,
rock, and soil,
to places far
and wide –
they held
knowledge
humanity had yet
to even consider.
His trunk, he
told me, contained
layers in concentric
rings, infused
with memories
of all people who
had passed
him by over
the years.
His branches,
he said,
kept secrets
of the birds,
who sang him
tales of their
dinosaur ancestors –
his leaves
communed, with
the sun,
wind, stars,
sky, and moon,
about the
state of affairs
across the galaxy.
Daniel Tobias Behan is a London born-and-based poet. From 2017 to 2019, Daniel performed regularly at the London Irish Centre, Camden; in 2018 Daniel was interviewed by the Irish Post as part of their London Calling podcast series, and in 2020 had a short film made of ‘The Visit’ featuring acclaimed actor Nora Connolly and directed by Patrick O’Mahony, was interviewed for Wombwell Rainbow, and commenced a poetry series ‘Findings’ on channillo.com.
Rebecca Gethin lives on Dartmoor in Devon. In 2017 two pamphlets were published: A Sprig of Rowan by Three Drops Press and All the Time in the World by Cinnamon Press who published an earlier collection called A Handful of Water and two novels. She has been a Hawthornden Fellow. In 2018 she jointly won the Coast to Coast Pamphlet competition and has been awarded a writing residency at Brisons Veor. Find more at 
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