As Above, So Below
by Christine Stewart-Nuñez
A canopy of silver maples:
fifteen feet of trunk thrust
leaves into blue Nebraska sky.
We stood underneath, arms
wrapped around waists,
grass cool against bare feet.
Below, root systems spread
out as wide as the trees are tall;
roots of two growing close
web beneath earth, interlace
to share water or sickness,
whichever love is theirs to bear.
Christine Stewart-Nuñez is the author of The Love of Unreal Things, Unbound & Branded (Finishing Line Press 2005 and 2006) and Postcard on Parchment (ABZ Press 2008). Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Calyx, Arts & Letters, and North American Review. She teaches at South Dakota State University.
