"Night Forest" by Chip Ghigna

Acrylic on wood, diptych, 6 ft x 15" x 2

on display at ArtAlley.net

The Silent Forest

The trees here are easy to talk about,

though we never really take them one at a time,

never really know one with words.

Maybe our eyes are the problem,

and when we are close, our hands, too,

get in the way.

We almost cannot walk past the trees

with our fingers still in our pockets,

and I wonder if it is their silence

that we want each time to touch

or simply the feel of something stronger

than ourselves, something rooted and solid

that may tell the truth on us

whenever we come out of our pockets

and open our eyes.

©Charles Ghigna