Edges

I could stand beneath a tree all day, 

gazing upward at the leaves to check way the light 

is diffused as it makes its way from the sun

through the layers and shapes that overlap and

intersect each other on its way to the ground below.

Above, a tiny leaf makes a heart in the chest 

of one of its larger brethren, anthropomorphizing

a species that makes life on Earth possible

for the oxygen breathing species among us.