Wide digital almost sky

each day a legendary search for the lost
cry of children in the woods
each day a woman leaves her house
walks into the woods looking for her children
each day she falls in love with a tree
makes love to it and walks home before it gets dark
each day a woman leaves her home
walks into the woods looking for her children
each day she wraps her arms around the trunk of a tree
rubs herself against it until the tree quakes
until she becomes a rope of hair
then walks back home before it gets dark
a woman searching for her children
walks into the woods but there aren’t any trees
she keeps walking to the other side
silvery and shimmering
ahead of her the gravel is shimmering