Highness

photo of a gumtree with its branches spread

Stops me in my tracks
royal eucalypt beckons
yes your majesty

Sensorial

closeup photo of a peeling bark of a gumtree — Looking closely at a neighbourhood gumtree

Discarding dead cells
rough and weather beaten skins
humanly bushland

Scale

close up photo of a large crack in the middle of a gumtree's trunk

Small split on a stump
a crack in the universe
for spiders on gums

Bright

photo of the morning sun streaming through the leaves and branches of a gumtree

Natural vibrance
eyes gleaming through leafy fringe
sun behind a gum

Encapsulated

photo of a gumtree with thin clouds around it

Reining the clouds in
swish like a wraparound skirt
rained on eucalyptus