The Bent Forest

The Bent Tree

The shape of survival is rarely straight.

On the ridge the wind never rests, and nothing grows straight there.

The trees that refused to bend are lying down now, covered in moss.

The one still standing looks nothing like the tree it meant to be.

Where this happened

The Bent Forest

What survives by changing shape.

Further along the road

When Room Is Made

Nothing arrives until something is set down.