Sap is rising in the garden, bringing flesh and blushes to the magnolia next door, and making trees vulnerable (does it?). A roguish nor-easter felled the pink-flowering manuka across the front fence and footpath last week.
Sap glistened under the bark. Its wood was wet in the saw’s teeth, and weighed in our hands as heavy as meat.
4 responses to “Rise and fall”
Thanks, Kay, too. The pink, leaking heartwood was disconcerting.
Homage/s indeed, and we’ll pay it again when we warm ourselves at a manuka fire next winter.
I recognize that chimney, those blushing petals, that meaty wood. Each of them a homage of sorts? Thanks, Pen. x
Wood as heavy as meat. A great image / description.