joy is a tall tree

I'm still playing with the homemade metaphor generator that I talked about in the last post. In this post, I used Taylor Mali's suggestion to continue the metaphor with the phrase, "which is to say."


Photo: Steve Peterson


joy is      a     tall tree

which is to say
a tree         doesn’t     grow     overnight,
and
the     best things            take     time,
and
while     a forest     is
large
and         often     beautiful,
you can
lose     your     tree
inside     it