Alicia Adamerovich, Miguel Cardenas, Andrew Cranston, Justin Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth Glaessner, Merlin James, Olivia Jia, August Krogan-Roley, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Sarah Lee, Daisy Sheff, Nicolas Party, Stephen Polatch, Kathy Ruttenberg, Andrew Sim, Autumn Wallace, and Areum Yang

 

To be a giant and keep quiet about it

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07/14/2022 - 08/17/2022

Trees

by Howard Nemerov

To be a giant and keep quiet about it,
To stay in one’s own place;
To stand for the constant presence of process
And always to seem the same;
To be steady as a rock and always trembling,
Having the hard appearance of death
With the soft, fluent nature of growth,
One’s Being deceptively armored,
One’s Becoming deceptively vulnerable;
To be so tough, and take the light so well,
Freely providing forbidden knowledge
Of so many things about heaven and earth
For which we should otherwise have no word—
Poems or people are rarely so lovely,
And even when they have great qualities
They tend to tell you rather than exemplify
What they believe themselves to be about,
While from the moving silence of trees,
Whether in storm or calm, in leaf and naked,
Night or day, we draw conclusions of our own,
Sustaining and unnoticed as our breath,
And perilous also—though there has never been
A critical tree—about the nature of things.