trees

  • Life is the strugglebetween Ego and Stillness. Chin up, my friend:Stillness wins. Or more precisely,only Stillness is.  Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Michigan Trees, 2

    Towering over the house,a hissing, blowing, shakingtemple of treesfills my room and dreamswith whispering, sibilant, sleeptime worship. I lie motionless and silent in my bed,awed. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Michigan Trees, 1

    All night longthe wind blows,incessant,insistent. I look out my windowat the black massesof Michigan's tall treetopswaltzing with the starlit sky beyond. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Good Day

    I accomplished much today.The western sky turns a satisfying golden pink.The crowns of neighborhood oaks and elms, summer-full,darken into rolling hillstoward which crows arc and caw.Everything heads home. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading