The Woods
- John Brantingham
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The Woods
This afternoon I will watch the woods through my daughter’s eyes and see the
world interconnected as she has taught me to see it, how people’s lives are grafted to people’s lives and that to harm one is to harm the other to harm the self.
I’ll see these people on the trail, they and I are of me and I of them. This fox in
the fallen down tree, the fallen tree itself, the stream, the fish, the wind, they are of me
too. I’ll watch the woods through my daughter’s eyes, so that perhaps I can see it.
Biography: John Brantingham is currently and always thinking about radical wonder. He is a New York State Council on the Arts Grant Recipient for 2024, and he was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been in hundreds of magazines and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has twenty-two books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction.
Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/green-leaf-tree-in-tilt-shift-lens-69HJU8eDVbo) 13. 6. 2025.
