Pointy hoods

Fresh snow coats the spiky crowns of evergreens

into narrow cones of shining white

steepled against a brillig sky -- 

a vast convocation 

of pointy white hoods.

Do spruce trees also

have pointy little brains

beneath their whited hoods?

Do they conspire

to make miserable

the lives of lesser beings

who gyre and gimble

 in the darkness by their feet?

No. Trees don’t do that.

Only humans do.

By Jim Taylor, January 2019