Recent scientific research indicates that the human heart thinks; it has a brain.
hearts beat
in hardest timber,
sap flows
through thick-barked trees;
unbending trunk
formality
is not a tree’s totality;
in side all rigid knotty wood
a softness hides
beneath the rough bark’s should;
trees higher limbs
bend under winds;
leaves sway and tremble,
daily changed
by sun, by insect,
drought and rain.cutting wood into the pith
destroys all myths
of heartlessness
Ginny Emery
