Listening - Trout Black

[Larry Robinson]

Listening


Lately 
I have been listening to trees.

I asked them 
if they have been talking to me 
all along.

“We’ve been murmuring,”
I heard.
“Contentedly,
as you’ve been listening 
to others,
to Emil’s spirit voice,
to Grandfather Fire,
to your hilltop Roble.

“Who you listen to,
who you hear, 
depends upon you,
where you are in your listening.

“Everything, 
of course, 
has a voice.”

	- Trout Black